"I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't actually care what another person thinks, we just want to say what we think. To hear it reflected back to us and that we're okay, to hear that we have been understood and that we're correct - so that we can continue to be who we are in the ways we've been being, and we have nothing to feel bad about and everything is just fine. Even if what we're talking about is, like, police brutality."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Police Quotes

“I was a metalhead and then I was into the rap and then I was a metalhead again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've been portrayed as a caveman by some. That's not true. I'm a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners, or niggers.”
“Your painting is a measure of your mind.”
“It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.”
“My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.”
“I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.”

Source : "Trace the arc of Liz Phair's career via her Wall Street Journal piece on Lana Del Rey" by Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. February 6, 2012.
“Power should answer by action, not by speech.”
“The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy â€“ and so do all of us, more than we imagine.”

Source : John Wyndham (2003). “The Day of the Triffids”

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