“The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 64 of 169
“It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.”
“An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”
“I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.”
“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”
“I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats. (On the KKK)”
“Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.”
“Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.”
“It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.”
“The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.”
“Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.”
“Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.”
“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”
“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.”
“We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.”
“Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.”
“You see all the young girls, and they're so skinny. I actually don't even twirl anymore. They say, "Twirl, let us see your back." I just tell 'em, "I do not twirl. If you want to see my back, when I walk away, you can take a picture of it. I'm not twirling." You know, I twirled once, and I almost fell. It looks ridiculous. So I said I'm not twirling anymore.”
“It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.”
“In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.”
“We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.”