"[The people who run things] are so successful in the way they do it now. They could buy me off with a couple of vintage prints, they could have you do an ad, or give you a ribbon... In capitalist countries they reward artists because we're ineffectual."

-- Danny Lyon

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Couple Quotes

“By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.”
“He believes me. But that is nothing new. He always did because I was a rule follower. I played by the rules he understood. But there are new rules now, ones he doesn't know yet. He'll learn. Just as I'm learning.”
“As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.”
“O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!”
“And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether youâ€™re from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that youâ€™re trying to get to the city of gold, and thatâ€™s enough. Come on board, they say. Weâ€™ll adjust.”

Source : "Bombay can take it" by Salil Tripathi, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.
“A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.”
“Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.”
“There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing.”

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