"I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me."

-- Diablo Cody

#Reality Quotes #Los Angeles Quotes #Retarded Quotes

“No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.”

Source : "You Can’t Survive on $7.25" by Ben Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2013.
“To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion.”
“I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing.”
“Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.”
“Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.”
“I think it's inevitable that some of the court's decisions will be found by a segment of the public to be not the right decision or subject to criticism.”
“I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a table, it would resemble a scrap of lace. I am a lover of history . . . [but] history has one flaw. It is a subjective art, no less so than poetry or music. . . . The historian writes a truth. The memoirist writes a truth. The novelist writes a truth. And so on. My mother, we both know, wrote a truth in The 19th Wifeâ€“ a truth that corresponded to her memory and desires. It is not the truth, certainly not. But a truth, yes . . . Her book is a fact. It remains so, even if it is snowflaked with holes.”
“Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.”

Source : Song: The Eagle, Album: The Eagle, 1990

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