"My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer."

-- Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Construction Quotes

“From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 28, 2004.
“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?”
“Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.”
“Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.”
“There is no need to change this world at all; and there is no need to change yourself either.”
“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”
“My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.”
“If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a priori exclude the possibility that we are pulled as well as pushed along its axis? The future has, after all, as much or as little reality as the past, and there is nothing logically inconceivable in introducing, as a working hypothesis, an element of finality, supplementary to the element of causality, into our equations. It betrays a great lack of imagination to believe that the concept of "purpose" must necessarily be associated with some anthropomorphic deity.”

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