George Carlin // "I could never understand ethnic or national pride. Because to me, pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn’t a skill, it’s a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn’t say 'I’m proud to be 5’11”. I’m proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.' So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or American or anything?"
Simone de Beauvoir // "I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."
Bob Dylan // "Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about will come true."
Vincent Van Gogh // "I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture."
Paul McCartney // "I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird."
Stevie Nicks // "Don’t listen to other people. In your heart of hearts, you know what’s best for you."
Miles Davis // "Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent."
Henry Rollins // "If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against them, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do."
Anais Nin // "It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."
Rick Rubin // "If you listen carefully, people explain to you what it is that they need."
Brad Pitt // "It doesn't mean fuck-all to me until...until you live it. That's why I never understood growing up with, 'don't do this, don't do that,' it's all about don'ts, and I was like how the fuck do you know who you are and what works for you if you don't find out where the edge is, where's your line? You've got to step over it to know where it is."
Al Pacino // "My weaknesses...I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing."