"Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels."

-- John Oliver

#Empires Quotes #Drains Quotes #British Quotes

“Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and canâ€™t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.”
“One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're going to manage to get down on paper.”
“Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.”
“I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.”

Source : "Pirates of the Caribbean star Ian McShane: 'Wandering in swamps could've been tough.. but if you're standing next to Penelope Cruz, it's not that difficult'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 11, 2011.
“If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.”
“Being on the road 33 weeks of the year, this becomes your community. You have to get to along with everybody. Racing becomes your life. You still have your friends at home, but you're with these people so much. You have to get along.”
“I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.”
“My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.”

Source : "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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