"Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces."

-- Rufus Wainwright

#Cutting Quotes #People Quotes #Berlin Quotes

“I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.”
“The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.”
“In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.”
“Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.”
“All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.”
“In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.”

Source : Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”
“I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.”

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