"He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices."

-- Gore Vidal

#Kansas Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Insult Quotes

“Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.”
“I do keep pre-occupied.”
“The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.”
“Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.”
“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.”

Source : "Visions of Reality - A Study of Abnormal Perception and Behavior". Book by Alberto Rivas, p. 162, 2007.
“I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.”
“I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page.”

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