"In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Kings Quotes #Hypocrite Quotes #Hypocrisy Quotes

“I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.”
“Oh, I don't talk about God.”

Source : "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.
“When I started to sing like myself - as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while - when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it.”
“In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station for 11 days. The entire crew did five space walks, of which I was involved with three of them. When you're doing a space walk, you always have a buddy with you. It's a very dangerous environment when you're doing a space walk.”

Source : "My Conversation With an Astronaut". Interview with Ben Arnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.
“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
“Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.”

Source : "Obituary". The Economist, (p. 107), November 6, 2010.
“My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.”
“It showed nothing. I'm not pregnant.”

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