"The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles."

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Source : Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 1998.

Harlan Ellison

#World Quotes #Imbeciles Quotes

“The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.”
“I'm a good listener. I think it's the one characteristic that's most important. I've always been that way. Not that I take all the advice, but you've got to listen to it and have the courage to make your own decision. And just go for it.”
“We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.”
“I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.”

Source : "Soul Singer Sharon Jones: 'The Cancer Is Here, But I Want To Perform'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 28, 2016.
“I have a real hunger to experience life. I'm really, really inspired by my family. I grew up with my family, really did a lot; we took a lot of road trips, we did a lot of different businesses, we'd always tried stuff. For me, that just kind of sparked something from the time I was a kid.”
“Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.”
“The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.”
“I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.”

Source : "Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation". Book by Michael Harris, 2015.

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