"For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history â€“ perhaps most â€“ it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater."

-- Bill Bryson

#Fashion Quotes #Triumph Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.”
“It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.”
“I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.”
“I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.”
“People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.”

Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. 2003.
“We are capitalism made flesh.”

Source : "The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age". Book by Mark Kingwell, 2000.
“A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.”
“When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.”

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