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...There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself...
...time I had been with him. Can I tell you a quick story? Michael Jackson called me up and said, "Spike, I want meet you, I'm coming to New York." I said, "Well where you want to meet?" He says, "I want to come to your house." I live in Brooklyn! He wants to come to my house! So, Michael Jackson came to my house in Brooklyn, New York - this was when I was living in Fort Greene. And he said, I want you to direct a video for me. My new album's coming out, pick a song...
...believe he is if he thinks Iranians can be persuaded to switch focus to the economy--and question why their regime is not spinning money and enriching the country--while their centrifuges are "spinning day and night" enriching uranium. If the North Koreans, who are far poorer, can live with this set of priorities out of a sense of national pride, why can't the Iranians? Kangayam Rangaswamy, WAUNAKEE...
Well, it didn't end it. [Laughs.] I don't know what film will be able to do that. I think maybe a better question might be, Can you still do films today dealing with race in the so-called, quote-unquote, postracial world we live in? I don't even know what that is when people say that. It would be a different movie, but I don't think that subject matter has been exhausted...
...pass Proposition 13 in 1978, he included a two-thirds vote requirement for the passage of any new taxes in California - an insurmountable obstacle built on populist allergy to any kind of new levy. Beholden to a tax-averse electorate, the state's liberals and moderates have attempted to live with Proposition 13 while continuing to provide the state services Californians expect - freeways, higher education, prisons, assistance to needy families and, very important, essential funding to local government and school districts that vanished after the antitax measure passed...