"Violence is not funny."

-- William Friedkin

#Violence Quotes

“We need to call what is happening out of Washington, D.C., what it is: Bureaucratic terrorism: If you want a list of stories, I could go through a bunch of them, and I could highlight a few: One of them was the IRS audit of my good friend Phil Hart, he's sitting in the audience today. That was bureaucratic terrorism.”
“To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it”

Source : Donald Hall (1988). “Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988”
“If I'm a ***** spell it right, I got way more than two G's”
“Do you know how I feel about that? I'm sure this is no big surprise... what a mistake. I should never have voted for that, but I accepted what [former Secretary of State] Colin Powell and the others said. But it took me just a matter of a few months to realize it was a bad mistake, and my record speaks for itself. I've spoken out against what was going on, not once, not twice, but lots of times. And I'm sorry that I was misled, but I was, and it was a mistake for me to vote for that war.”
“In the depths of my heart I canâ€™t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
“If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite.”
“Every good thing depends on getting and keeping the power of the Holy Ghost in our lives. Everything depends on that.”
“My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing”

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