Sharon Tate // "I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Sometimes I don't know what I want to do from one day to the next. I can't enjoy anything premeditated; I just do it as I feel it. But whatever I do is motivated by honesty."
Rainer Werner Fassbinder // "Cheerfulness that’s characterized as cheerfulness by the usual signs usually isn’t the real thing. I’m cheerful in a certain way, and it’s for myself... when a person who’s eating feels it’s necessary to keep saying “Oh, what a marvelous piece of meat!” or “This sauce is incredibly delicious!” I have a strange feeling that for some reason he has to talk himself into believing it. Or if you’re out for a walk and the other person keeps saying how lovely it is to go walking with you... Someone who always feels the necessity to say what he may or may not be feeling–he must have to talk himself into it... In principle I’m not against expressing something now and then, on the contrary, language is a significant means of getting things across, after all. But I just think it shouldn’t be a constant thing."
Barack Obama // "Change will not come if we wait for some person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Jane Goodall // "We are in a position to understand our relation to the rest of the planet. We can ask questions like, why am I here? And do I matter? And I think that's what makes us different...that we can question the reason for existence."
Ingmar Bergman // "I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically... I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency."
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis // "Minimum information given with maximum politeness."
Jim Carrey // "Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting."
Harry Houdini // "My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear... No one except myself can appreciate how I have to work at this job every single day, never letting up for a moment. I always have on my mind the thought that next year I must do something greater, something more wonderful."
Mary Ellen Mark // "The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life."
Bill Murray // "This is your life...not a rehearsal."
Buckminster Fuller // "The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's a different kind of life."
Cesar Chavez // "Once social change begins it cannot be reversed. You can not un-educate the person who has learned to read. You can not humiliate the person who feels pride. You can not oppress the people who are not afraid anymore."