"Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols."

-- Gael Garcia Bernal

#Democracy Quotes #Publicity Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.”

Source : Henry Mintzberg (2000). “The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning”, p.333, Pearson Education
“Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.”
“People would be in hysterics if they saw that. It's like, wow, he's a superhuman moron.... So he wears lipstick, has a little bouffant, and does little circus acts as well. Oh, he's so sexy.”
“Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.”

Source : Song: Red Neck Woman, 2004
“Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.”
“Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.”
“And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.302, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.”

Source : "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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