The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. Use this quote
Everything is politics. Use this quote
My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. Use this quote
Writing is hard work and bad for the health. Use this quote
In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote. Use this quote
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. Use this quote
You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you. Use this quote
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. Use this quote
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. Use this quote
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Use this quote
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. Use this quote
Education is the movement from darkness to light. Use this quote
The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately. Use this quote
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. Use this quote
I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right. Use this quote
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. Use this quote
Music can change the world because it can change people. Use this quote
I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did. Use this quote
I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much. Use this quote
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair. Use this quote
