"Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions."

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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

A. A. Gill

#People Quotes #Dull Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Itâ€™s one of those things where when youâ€™re training and fighting, you canâ€™t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your petâ€™s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you donâ€™t worry about what people think of you.”
“Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'”
“Unless you see your nature, you shouldn't go around criticizing the goodness of others. There's no advantage in deceiving yourself. Good and bad are distinct. Cause and effect are clear. But fools don't believe and fall straight into a hell of endless darkness without even knowing it. What keeps them from believing is the heaviness of their karma. They're like blind people who don't believe there's such a thing as light. Even if you explain it to them, they still don't believe, because they're blind. How can they possibly distinguish light?”
“Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.”
“People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.”
“I've had the hat for four years and it keeps getting better with age. It's been in the ocean and the pool several times, yet refuses to be destroyed. The shape only improved with weathering. I bought several for my storefront in NYC, but it felt like a fish out of water in the city. It cries out for the California coastline and the arid deserts of Africa.”
“During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.”
“Cloud bounded along the earth like a ball”

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