"Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception."

-- Chris Hedges

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“I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.”
“Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.”

Source : "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.
“My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“Originally, I broke the story [The Gunslinger Born] into eight comic books, but when the editors at Marvel thought we should make it more compact, I managed to cut back to seven.”

Source : Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com
“It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.”
“The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.”
“Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.”
“It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.”

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