“Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 96 of 169
“To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?”
“Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.”
“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.”
“Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.”
“The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.”
“Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.”
“A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others”
“We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.”
“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”
“And so this is Christmas...what have you done?”
“As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.”
“Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.”
“The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.”
“Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.”
“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.”
“Never send a boy to do a woman’s job, Irma.” - Payton Kendall”
“Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population; the state is not subject to the rule of law, but law can be suspended or deployed tactically and partially to suit the requirements of a state that seeks more and more to allocate sovereign power to its executive and administrative powers. The law is suspended in the name of "sovereignty" of the nation, where "sovereignty" denotes the task of any state to preserve and protect its own territoriality.”
“Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.”
“I think people should be able to do what they want to do.”