"People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#People Quotes #Legs Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“I don't like sympathetic characters.”

Source : "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2012.
“Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.”
“I have a no-die clause in every movie. The black people can't be dying all the time.”
“The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.”
“As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.”
“I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.”
“You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”
“I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.”

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