"Only fools mistake politicians for messiahs."

-- Kevin Barrett

#Mistake Quotes #Historical Quotes #Fool Quotes

“If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.”
“In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.”
“I remember we were out on the road when the album finally came out in February 1973. I listened to it in my hotel room and just got this really big smile. I was thinking, 'It's amazing, we're really pulling this off'. The album was very, very unique and very, very different. I was really proud of the songs, especially 'No More Mr Nice Guy', 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'Generation Landslide'.”
“If you don't give up your hopes and dreams, then there will always be a good ending.”
“There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.”
“Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the viewer and masturbates in those holes. Then it finally gets into the brain and masturbates there, too.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.”
“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. Thatâ€™s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.7, Penguin

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