"Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty."

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Source : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall”, p.766, Simon and Schuster

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Crowds Quotes #Empty Quotes

“[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society ... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason ... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.”

Source : "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.
“I'm working in my mind.”
“As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.”
“Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your practices? Surely not. It is recorded of him that a bruised reed he never broke. Cease, then, to call yourselves Christians, lest you declare to the world your hypocrisy. Cease, too, to call other nations savage, when you are tenfold more the children of cruelty than they.”
“I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber”
“The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker,”
“I guess there isnâ€™t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.”
“Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.”

Source : "The secret of the world's oldest marathon runner" by Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2011.

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