"What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ***** for no reasonâ€”instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, itâ€™s the postmodern institutions . . . those are the indifferent gods."

-- David Simon

#Selfish Quotes #Oedipus Quotes #People Quotes

“The biggest Russian problem - not all Russian jerks have moved to the US and UK yet.”
“If you let your emotions get high, your bargaining power will be low. Make sure you don't negotiate from a position of need when making a deal.”
“When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.”
“I think weâ€™ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.”
“I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.”

Source : Isaac Rosenberg (2003). “The selected poems of Isaac Rosenberg”, Spotlight Poets
“I lowered taxes in New York. I reduced the size of government in New York. I took a $2.4 billion deficit and turned it into a $3.2 billion surplus. And I reduced taxes over 23 times or 23 times.”
“It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.”
“I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.”

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