"Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms."

-- Allan Bloom

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“It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.”

Source : Source: drwhointerviews.wordpress.com
“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”
“Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.”
“I can beat any two players in this tournament by myself. If I need any help, I'll let you know.”
“It's been said to me that I'm self-destructive because I'll walk away from things that are good.”

Source : "Ariel Rechtshaid: the producer behind Vampire Weekend, Haim and Sky Ferreira" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2013.
“I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.”
“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”
“I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.”

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