"If there are some who talk the same language as myself, then why should I neglect their interests for the sake of some other group of people who are alien and remote? they have their own 'gods and idols' and we have nothing in common. [...] If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money"

-- Andrei Tarkovsky

#Mean Quotes #Idols Quotes #People Quotes

“I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.”
“The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...”
“Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.”
“Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.”
“This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that wed ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadnt said that.”

Source : "Top Gear: Botswana Special". Comedy, Talk-Show, November 04, 2007.
“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”

Source : 'Heraclitus'; translation of Callimachus 'Epigram 2' in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)
“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark”

Source : Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett
“I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.”

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