"The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have."

-- Xinran

“I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.”
“When people tell you're not good enough, don't mind them.”
“There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.”
“Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.”

Source : "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.
“Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.394, Univ of California Press
“I'm quite a romantic person - everyone loves being treated a little bit special, no matter how hard you are on the surface. I live in movie land; my head is full of nonsense.”
“This particular type of human carries weapons slightly more lethal than your beloved pink monstrosity”
“I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com

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