"I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline."

-- Lydia Lunch

#Thinking Quotes #Ethos Quotes #People Quotes

“Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”
“I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually.”
“Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.”
“Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.”
“In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding, ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.”
“Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.”
“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”
“I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.”

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