"The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel."

-- Christopher Isherwood

“I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Single by choice, just not my choice.”
“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.”
“Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still”
“I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.”
“The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.”
“Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.”

Source : Nadeem Aslam (2012). “Maps for Lost Lovers”, p.200, Random House India

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