"It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving."

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Source : John Lanchester (2010). “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

John Lanchester

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“Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.”
“Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.”
“Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.”
“Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.”
“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”

Source : George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.1, University of Missouri Press
“Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.”
“I want the ethic of being independent and open-minded, having a lot of integrity, intellectually, to be part of anything I do.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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