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Reporter: “What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?”
Sendak: “I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.”
"— Commentary: ‘Wild Things’ is scary, but so is life - CNN.com
FOLLOWING:
Yimmys Yayo™Reporter: “What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?”
Sendak: “I would tell them to go to hell. That’s a question I will not tolerate.”
"— Commentary: ‘Wild Things’ is scary, but so is life - CNN.com
“Imagine what that will do to our schools and our universities. We don’t have enough books. If you are connected, you have the whole libraries of the whole world.”
He said he was surprised that major corporations like Google and Microsoft were not investing in the area, arguing that the potentially huge user base could provide massive revenue opportunities through advertising.
"In 2008, he was named Britain’s most influential black person. He has wealth beyond the comprehension of his family and peers. “I’m the same African boy who grew up, came here and worked hard. And I was fortunate enough that things I have done worked. So there’s nothing unusual or fantastic.
“I’m the same person. I still drive the same type of car. I live in the same house. Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa, or is going back to Africa. I decided the money will go into something really effective and worthwhile. That’s what I hope our foundation will do.”
He accuses big networks of ignoring the opportunity of Africa, saying that stories of tyrants and corruption strikes fear into international investors. “Africa is not that bad. “Two or three terrible tyrants, which is still too many, but there are 53 countries in Africa. Corruption exists everywhere. Corruption exists in [the UK] also. We have to have a balanced view of governance.” “How would you feel if I came [to Europe] and all I talk about is Hitler and Milosevic - you had your bad guys. “Let us be a little bit balanced in the way we view things.”
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HERO
The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate. Sometimes a kind of existential perception of the absurd comes over me and I see with awful certainty the hypocrisies and posturing of myself and my fellow men.
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Indeed.
This corresponds to a condition anticipated by Elias Canetti of “a society in which every person is depicted, and prays before his own image”
— Commentary: Obama’s ‘unclenched fist’ won the prize - CNN.com
