John Malkovich // "...if someone isn't vulnerable, I can't be around them to a certain extent... That quality exists in a lot more women than men. I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare. I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior. You know, you go and play basketball, and it's like, "Fuck you...Eat shit! Wimp!" I can't really identify with that."
Lightnin Hopkins // "People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is."
Tina Turner // "Sometimes you have to let everything go...purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything, whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free...your true self comes out."
Hunter S. Thompson // "One of the most important things is to recognize that we do have this mounting violence in us, and then to find the reasons — and then once you find that, it’s like curing a boil… The same venom that [they] are spitting out in public, a lot of people are just keeping bottled up in private. I think this technological science of obsolescence...the fact that people are becoming obsolete...the people who are most affected by this technological obsolescence are the ones least capable of understanding the reasons for it. So the venom builds up much quicker...it feeds on their ignorance. Until you recognize what’s happening, what makes you do these wild things…it’s like an albatross around your neck."
Bruce Lee // "Choose the positive. You have a choice. You are the master of your attitude. Choose the positive, the constructive."
Carl Sagan // “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there, on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam… The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet… To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot…the only home we’ve ever known.”
Hermann Hesse // "Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap... Now there are times when a whole generation is caught in this way between two ages, two modes of life, with the consequence that it loses all power to understand itself and has no standard..."
Al Pacino // "The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie."
Gerhard Richter // "Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything... But then I always have the hope that, if I persevere, it might one day happen. And this hope is nurtured every time something appears...a scattered, partial, initial hint of something which reminds me of what I long for..."
Maurice Maeterlinck // "As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the abyss, and when we return to the surface the drop of water on our pale fingertips no longer resembles the sea from which it comes. We delude ourselves that we have discovered a wonderful treasure trove, and when we return to the light of day we find that we have brought back only false stones and shards of glass; and yet the treasure goes on glimmering in the dark, unaltered."
Ernest Hemingway // "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
Nina Simone // "I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I’m doing and why."
