"If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career"

-- Lenny Bruce

#New York Quotes #Cities Quotes #Careers Quotes

“What we revealed is that this spying system is devoted not to terrorists, but is directed to innocent people around the world. None of this has anything to do with terrorism. Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?”
“An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.”

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“There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.”
“Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.”
“Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.”
“Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.”
“I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.”
“To do justice to the figure of Kafka in its purity and its peculiar beauty one must never lose sight of one thing: it is the purity and beauty of a failure.”

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