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Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.


Walter Kaufmann

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WALTER SALLES My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to cu...
WALTER SALLES I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
WALTER SALLES And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done...
WALTER SALLES Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who wen...
WALTER SALLES A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
WALTER SALLES The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil.
WALTER SALLES There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much pr...
WALTER SALLES On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
WALTER SALLES There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to ...
WALTER REUTHER I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
WALTER REISCH A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
WALTER REISCH Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.
WALTER REISCH This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
WALTER REISCH There's no term to the work of a scientist.
WALTER REISCH Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown...
WALTER REISCH Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations...
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike...
WALTER RALEIGH Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
WALTER RALEIGH I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
WALTER PAYTON