"The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States."

-- C. Wright Mills

#Stars Quotes #Men Quotes #White Quotes

“Over a period of 11 months I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.”

Source : "Laura Dekker: a heroine for our times" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.
“The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.”
“This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here.”
“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”
“If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.”
“I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.”
“Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?”
“How do we change the world? Change the story.”

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