"The artificial primacy of defense among our national priorities is a constant unearned windfall for some, but it's privation for the rest of America; it steals from what we could be and can do. In Econ 101, they teach that the big-picture fight over national priorities is guns versus butter. Now it's butter versus margarineâ€”guns get a pass. Overall, we're weaker for it, and at enormous cost."

-- Rachel Maddow

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“We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.”

Source : Rosetta Brooks, Richard Prince, Jeffrey Rian, Luc Sante (2003). “Richard Prince”, Phaidon Press
“Of course. I loved it so much it made me want to spit on you!!”
“I work six months and get three or four with the family.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their predicament and that governments were committed to helping. Equally an optimism had to be engendered, a belief that not only would they recover but would emerge 'bigger, brighter and better than ever.'”
“Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.”
“The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.”
“It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.”
“We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."”

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