"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another."

-- Voltaire

#Money Quotes #Art Quotes #Humor Quotes

“I'm not trying to disrespect anybody by saying this - I'm not sure I feel any interaction with Asian America in any collective sense. - It's like, when you're telling me this right now, my reaction is, Really? Asian America knows about me?”
“I'm for economic independence.”
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”

Source : Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”
“The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectivelyâ€”intuitivelyâ€”the camera can write poetry.”
“I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.”
“Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.”
“When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.”
“I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.”

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