"Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make"

-- Chris Cunningham

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“If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. He is taking the life that was given to him.”
“To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.”
“I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be mutual.”
“Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.”
“When the clouds clear we shall know the colour of the sky”

Source : Keorapetse Kgositsile (2002). “If I could sing: selected poems”
“Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.”
“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
“When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all â€” except life. We shall have found the basis of everything â€” of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small â€” except life.”

Source : "The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century: A Dictionary of Quotations‎". Book by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226, 1987.

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