"As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B.""

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Devendra Banhart

#Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes #Feet Quotes

“When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms.”
“No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.”
“I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.”
“In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.”
“When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.”
“When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.”
“Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.”
“My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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