"Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing."

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Source : Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

Ian Shoales

#Play Quotes #Jerk Quotes #Amadeus Quotes

“Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.”
“I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.”
“He wanted to be loved for being just what he was. In this community of Yskalnari there was harmony, but no love. He no longer wanted to be the greatest, strongest or cleverest. He had left all that far behind. He longed to be loved just as he was, good or bad, handsome or ugly, clever or stupid, with all his faults - or possibly because of them. But what was he actually? He no longer knew. So much have been given to him in Fantastica, and now, among all these gifts and powers, he could no longer find himself.”
“Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.”
“Nobody knows but you what it is thatâ€™s sacred to you as far as what you want to manifest in your life. You need to do it by your own chosen standards. Your life does not need to look like anybody elseâ€™s life. Itâ€™s a commitment that youâ€™re making to a magnificent life measured by your own chosen standards.”
“I don't want to be a mind rapist!”
“The revolution will not be televised.”
“Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.”

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