"One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting."

-- Nick Cave

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“Whatever I'm already doing becomes enhanced when I smoke pot. It can also be demotivating, because if I'm not doing anything and I smoke a joint, it enhances just sitting in a chair. Then I don't even want to get up to change a record. That might not be a bad thing, but you have to get things done once in a while.”
“When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.”

Source : "Stevens carved liberal legacy on high court". www.seattletimes.com. April 10, 2010.
“Opposites are cures for opposites.”
“Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts jokes. Sometimes her inspiration comes from areas of her life that are risquÃ©. But she is an A-plus professional joke-writer in addition to being very attractive and a great performer.”
“There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.”
“The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.”
“The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.”
“You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.”

Source : Donna Ball (2009). “A Year on Ladybug Farm”, p.5, Penguin

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