"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't."

-- Lennart Meri

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“No reality transforms itself.”
“I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is what many of the critics of Guantanamo would like to see happen. When the US government talks about closing Guantanamo, they talk about moving some set of detainees to some other place where they continue to be detained without charge.”
“Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.”
“my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.”
“The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.”
“The impossibility of keeping Englishmen sober ashore was a constant source of complaint, It was the great weakness of 16th century English infantrymen, whose performance when sober was admired even by the Spaniards. Already it was true, as it was to be for centuries, that many saw and despised the drunken sailor ashore, but few knew and admired him at his work afloat.”
“There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.”

Source : "It's more about the work than the money for Experimenter star Peter Sarsgaard". Interview with Pete Croatto, film.avclub.com. October 15, 2015.

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