Rowan Atkinson // "All cultures identify with children in a similar way. 10-year-old boys from different cultures have more in common than 30-year-olds. As we grow up, we acquire this sensibility that divides us."
Bob Dylan // "And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns...that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale...that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself."
Plato // "Those who tell stories rule society."
Lady Gaga // "I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star. I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be...and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth."
Katharine Hepburn // "The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated."
Charlie Chaplin // "You need power only when you want to do something harmful. Otherwise, love is enough to get everything done."
Zadie Smith // " I think what interested me is when you ask yourself what makes a person innately conservative or innately liberal, it’s really interesting. It’s more than the political argument, it’s a personality trait, one way or another. I was just trying to think of the fundamental questions around which the poles revolve. What really is it? It seemed to me that one of the most fundamental answers to this question is whether people get what they deserve, whether all things come to people in the right order, and whether there’s an unfairness in the world. The different ways you feel about this very basic question stack up in a political way, one way or another. That’s what interested me."
Jeff Buckley // "I love anything that haunts me and never leaves."
Albert Einstein // "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe"... He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature... Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
Martin Luther King Jr. // "We may have all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now."
Malcolm X // "Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."
John Hurt // "Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame."