"No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington."

-- Mariela Castro

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Prison Quotes

“But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.”
“Have you ever had that feelingâ€”that youâ€™d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
“There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.”
“Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.”
“If youâ€™re decent to others, then youâ€™re decent to yourself.”
“We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."”
“With Submarine, when I came out of school, people were so lovely and supportive. And you don't get that experience very often. It felt like a family on-set. So Submarine changed so much for me.”
“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”

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

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