"Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence."

-- Norman O. Brown

#Common Sense Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Violence Quotes

“When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.”
“In theater they want to put you on a contract a year in advance and I don't really like that. That's the reason why I became an actor - I like the freelance work. It's interesting, I like not being told what to do still, and I have a job where people tell me exactly what to do, so maybe I don't know myself as well as I want to. I think my last play I did was three years ago.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.”
“What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.”

Source : "Fictional character: J. Edgar Hoover". "J. Edgar", www.imdb.com. 2011.
“In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.”
“Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.”
“To increase speed you must increase the amount of rest, peace, calmness that you can maintain. That is the secret to playing fast.”
“Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.132, Macmillan

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