"Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing."

“It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.”

Source : "Rudd bamboozles Germans with 'programmatic specificity'". Perth Now, July 9, 2009.

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

“I was named after the next-door neighbor's German shepherd. It was either that or Cadillac Smith.”

“The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.”

“The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.”

“But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist order, bourgeois ideology as a whole and with it bourgeois economics began abandoning both reason and history.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.4, NYU Press

“I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading with the entire cast in the room for The Clone Wars makes the experience much more organic and I love that.”

“Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.”

Source : "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.