"I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'"

-- Nawal El Saadawi

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“I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.”

Source : Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2011.
“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.”
“Each is responsible for his own actions.”

Source : H. L. Hunt (1965). “Hunt for truth”
“And I loved seeing that because they're great interesting cities in of themselves so I'm looking forward to actually being able to use it as itself instead of being a bad New York.”
“I'm a student of violence because I'm a student of the human heart.”
“as I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K."-a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets-I AM AN ANTICHRIST-Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today-listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang-my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat.”

Source : "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century". Book by Greil Marcus, 1989.
“This wasnâ€™t the first time Iâ€™d been pulled out of bed for a crucial mission. It was, however, the first time Iâ€™d been subjected to such a personal line of questioning. â€œAre you a virgin?”
“Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree with the majority culture, is very important to me, and I think important for every artist. It's what we have: our voice, our intuition, the truth as we understand and know it.”

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