"American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it."

-- Glenn Greenwald

#Political Quotes #Culture Quotes

“As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.”

Source : "Making Music in the Anthropocene". www.slate.com. February 24, 2015.
“My first and foremost goal when I joined the Yankees was to win the world championship. Certainly it's been a long road and very difficult journey. But I'm just happy that after all these years we were able to win and reach the goal that I had come here for.”

Source : "New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Phillies to win World Series 4-2". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.
“I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.”

Source : Source: www.fluxmagazine.com
“It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of ***** which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.406, Penguin
“Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.”
“I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.'”

Source : "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.
“I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels for this position. To them, it's not necessarily that Dylan doesn't merit the highest honour. It's that he doesn't merit this specific highest honour [Nobel prize], in the way a champion pole vaulter shouldn't be given a medal for the long jump. It is in this group that the Wahey!s are mainly to be found, firing off jests, or mock solemnly reciting Dylan's sillier lyrics as if these are entirely representative of his oeuvre.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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