"Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything."

-- Glenn Greenwald

#Mean Quotes #Terrorism Quotes #Justify Quotes

“I jog, actually; I go at night. A lot of women, they don't like to go jogging alone at night. They're afraid they might get accosted. I go naked. That way, if there are any perverts around, they think I'm already being chased.”
“People love to help. I don't have to be insecure and know it all.”

Source : "Lululemon Founder Chip Wilson Shares The Best Advice He Ever Got" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. October 28, 2013.
“I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can understand Gulliver, or Kafka, or Dante. But let a man go about behaving as if he were a giant or a midget, or caught in a cosmic plot directed at himself, or in heaven or hell, and we feel horror - we want to disavow him to proclaim him as far removed as possible from ourselves.”

Source : Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.245, Library of America
“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”
“Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.”
“No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.”
“We were two and had but one heart.”

Source : "Le Grand Testament" by François Villon, 'Lay', Line 986,, 1461.

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