"The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement."

“I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.”

“There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.”

Source : Kate Bornstein (2012). “A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today”, p.164, Beacon Press

“Basically, you can't make a pop culture reference now without someone saying it's Tarantino-esque or post-Tarantino and I'm like where's that all come from? It's ridiculous. But it's not his fault.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

“Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

“One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.”

“I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.”

“Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation.”

“When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.”