"Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Business Quotes #War Quotes #Hegemony Quotes

“I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.”
“Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.”

Source : Jackie Collins (2009). “Lethal Seduction”, p.339, Simon and Schuster
“She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.”
“With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.”
“But phony, Hemingway was not, and poseur he was not. He did not shoot lions and leopards because he was searching for the answer to life. He shot lions and leopards because he bloody well liked to hunt and shoot, and killing was the best punctuation mark at the end of the intricate and fascinating process of hunting.”
“I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.”
“I knew she was a party girl. The book I liked most on her was called [princess] Margaret: A Life of Contrasts and getting to know her, it was how conflicted her position and her internal life - or self - was. She is so fiercely royal and so fiercely "sister of the queen" or "daughter of the king" because that is her identity and it's all she's ever known. And at the same time she is struggling to push the boundaries and to break away from it, to be different or to modernize the monarchy, to turn it on its head.”
“Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring.”

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