"Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise."

-- Sayyid Qutb

#America Quotes #Desire Quotes #Noise Quotes

“They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.”
“Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.”
“I try to stay away from the L.A. scene as much as possible. I feel it helps me to better prepare for my roles if I am not too involved in that whole thing.”
“The greatest sex toy ever invented may be the telephone. Sometimes there's nothing more erotic than a disembodied voice, no question more tantalizing than a whispered 'What are you wearing?' Especially when you can make up the answer. On the phone your hair always looks great, your legs are always shaved, your worst pair of underwear becomes a silk negligee.”
“He's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.”
“Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others ...”
“I am the best film director in the world.”

Source : Lars Von Trier Is "The Best Director In The World" by Zachary Wigon, www.tribecafilm.com. October 19, 2009 |.
“My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.”

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