"You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else."

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Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

Ian Astbury

#Pretending Quotes #Paid Quotes

“We are America; we don't torture. And the moment that is not the case, I want off the train.”

Source : "Shepard Smith Uncensored:'We Are America, We Do Not F**king Torture!'" by Nico Pitney, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2009.
“I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.”
“With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things”
“A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.”
“However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.”
“Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment.”
“Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?”
“Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.”

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