"The petition of an empty hand is dangerous."

-- Bill Vaughan

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“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of oneâ€™s own destruction, has become a â€œbiologicalâ€ need.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (1969). “An Essay on Liberation”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.”
“I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."”

Source : Interview with Maryanne Vollers, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2000.
“I can't remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?”
“I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater in downtown Santiago. I didn't really expect to be a filmmaker back then. But it was clearly an interest.”

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