“Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.”
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“If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?”
“When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.”
“A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.”
“For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For me, it wasn't Western feminism or the Western workspace. It was my growing up in a house with a bunch of boys, so that male costuming just became my mode of appropriation way before, you know, Betty Friedan came along.”
“I'm much more comfortable in pants and shirts, running around. There was a typical construction about womanhood when I was growing up that I rejected.”
“Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.”
“I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.”
“If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable.”
“I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.”
“Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.”
“Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.”
“I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.”
“I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.”
“There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.”
“What are you gonna do if I break one of your *&^%$ing rules?”
“Makin' mistakes ain't a crime, you know. What's the use of having a reputation if you can't ruin it every now and then?”
“Do you play football?' Brandon asks. 'No.' 'Baseball?' 'Nope.' Brandon is on a roll and won't stop until he's found the answer he's looking for. 'Tennis?' 'That would be a nada' 'Then what sport do you play?' Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, 'The horizontal tango.' ...Alex stands and says through chlenched teeth, 'Carlos let's talk. In private. Ahora.' ....Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. 'Daddy, do you know how to do the horizontal tango?”
“Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.”
“Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.”