"Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves."

-- Adam Phillips

#Needs Quotes #Bears Quotes

“The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.”
“The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?”
“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldnâ€™t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.”
“I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all.”
“When you love something, whether it's jam and cheese sandwiches or wearing your pyjamas as pants, you forget that it was ever anything other than commonplace.”
“Nothing is more important than to war on war.”

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