"Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth."

-- Edward Abbey

#Enemy Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.”
“All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.”
“The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it.”
“There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.”
“I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the deanâ€™s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.”

Source : J. Michael BISHOP (2009). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.43, Harvard University Press
“In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.”

Source : "Model Behavior / Vendela makes room in her life for charity, upcoming marriage and a 'Batman' movie" by Trish Donnally, www.sfgate.com. June 6, 1996.

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