"Yo! Youâ€™re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, Iâ€™d have asked for it, Motherfucker!"

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Mark Leyner

#Dope Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Itâ€™s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful in a few years. A perfect example is the Warhol â€˜Marilynâ€™; in the 1960s it was deemed garish. Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesnâ€™t mean having read a few art history books.”
“Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.”
“I have great respect for Angela Merkel, even if we have a lot of differences.”
“My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.”
“Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.”
“I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.”
“Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.”

Source : Peter F. Drucker, Joan Snyder Kuhl, Frances Hesselbein (2015). “Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today's Leaders”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons
“I really feel like civilisation's already over. It's not ending but it's already done. We're all addicted to the concept that humanity equals civilisation and that's not the case. We need a global conversation to be able to decipher how we can live from this point forward. We have to redefine our relationship with our environment.”

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