"To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility."

-- Patrick Ness

#Responsibility Quotes #Choices Quotes

“That place is so behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet.”
“I think this is one of the problems that we're having in Indigenous affairs. Why we're not confronting the issues that are going to resolve it, the anger and the guilt. The anger on the Aboriginal side; the guilt on the non - Aboriginal side. We have got to deal with that, move on and start doing real work.”
“If writing is language and language is desire and longing and suffering . . . then why when we write, when we make shapes on paper, why then does it so often look like the traditional, straight models, why does our longing look for example like John Updike's longing?”

Source : Carole Maso (2000). “Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire”, Counterpoint Press
“The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.”
“When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I think the future of food is in insects.”
“I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.”
“The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.”

Source : "Q&A: Leos Carax Explains ‘Holy Motors’ and Why He Wants to Make a Superhero Movie". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. October 15, 201.

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