“Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.”
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Sad Quotes — page 56 of 475
“Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.”
“We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”
“I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!”
“I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.”
“sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.”
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
“There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.”
“I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.”
“We havent been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan?”
“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”
“Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.”
“To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against? I've had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.”
“We struggled against apartheid because we were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about. It is the same with homosexuality. The orientation is a given, not a matter of choice. It would be crazy for someone to choose to be gay, given the homophobia that is present.”
“War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.”
“a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes”
“If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.”
“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
“All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.”