“I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 104 of 169
“Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.”
“There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.”
“Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.”
“The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.”
“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.”
“I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.”
“Secrecy begets tyranny.”
“Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.”
“I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.”
“We've got some new ways to make slaves here.”
“Scientology...is not a religion.”
“Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.”
“I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.”
“How different it all was from what you'd planned.”
“I want to be a society vampire, you see.”
“In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.”
“Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.”
“I like to be provocative.”
“Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.”