"Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about."

-- Aravind Adiga

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Worry Quotes

“If you asked me to I'd let you in my life forever. from If You Asked Me To”
“What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss - and sometimes hit.”
“Chopper asked to be in our band back in 1999 (we already had chosen somebody else who ended up annoying us) and then we kept running into and hanging out with him at concerts and car shows. We became friends. He shares the same passions as we do and every time we ran into him he looked like he was ready to step on stage with the Cramps. He was in Mr. Badwrench and before that he was in the Maus Maus when he was a teenager.”
“The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.”
“My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.”

Source : "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
“Them lady poets must not marry, pal.”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “His Toy, His Dream, His Rest”, p.187, Macmillan
“Only fools worship their tools”
“We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.”

Source : John Henrik Clarke (1991). “Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution”, Africa World Pr

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