"For ruining a fact, do not attack it, defend it badly."

-- Ali Shariati

“Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue', 'British Vogue', and 'French Vogue'.”
“The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.”
“What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.”
“People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.”
“Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.”
“Even painless research is fascism, supremacism.”
“It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?”

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