"Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry."

-- Marc Ribot

#Sorry Quotes #Mean Quotes #Avant Garde Quotes

“There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.”
“In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.”

Source : "A New Model of the Universe" by P.D. Ouspensky, (p. 37-38), 1932.
“She knows too well what it's like to tamp down your natural inclinations, to force a smile when you feel numb....The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so yo learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't really feel. And so it is that you learn to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.”
“I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.”
“No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.”

Source : Speech to William Henry Harrison, Vincennes, Indiana Territory, 14 Aug. 1810
“Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.”
“Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.”
“Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.”

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