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It's an individual taking a journey, that's the perspective. It happened here, but it could happen anywhere. The idea of leaving home is universal. It's about the idea of finding home and what is home.


Alan Cooke

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ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
ALAN PATON You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' A...
ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it pers...
ALAN BALL Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, ...
ALAN WATTS There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political...
ALAN SIEGEL On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12....
ALAN RICKMAN So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impos...
ALAN WATTS Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
ALAN WATTS So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they...
ALAN WATTS Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is a...
ALAN WATTS In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about th...
ALAN WATTS I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTS We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
ALAN WATTS Saints need sinners.
ALAN WATTS