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"But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now."
"I have a vision, and I know I'm right."
"In fact, I am a pessimist. But when I'm making a film, I don't want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don't believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children, children are very much capable of forming their own visions. There's no need to force our own visions onto them."
"I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life."
"We do not have a freehold on the earth, only a full repairing lease"
"Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair."
"Do you have the vision to help empower and channel the energy at the grassroots level?This is not about one person; this is about millions of people all working together to protect and advance the interests of working Americans."
"Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict."
"Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?"
"Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision."
"Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success."
"... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable."
"The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door."
"It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated."
"I certainly would never overstep my bounds and make suggestions to a director. As an actor I'm trying to fit to the best of my abilities within the director's vision, and trying to find some happy rapport where we can both bring something to it that's fresh. Usually I've been lucky in working with directors who have trusted my instincts."
"When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script."
"The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision."
"The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision."
"Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him."
"Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it."
