„If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.“
— Joan Crawford, Interview, New York Times (1964)
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— Milton Berle American comedian and actor 1908 - 2002
„Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.“
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
„If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.“
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
„Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
„everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.“
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
„I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.“
— Nelson Algren American novelist, short story writer 1909 - 1981
„I am being vilified by feminists for merely having a common-sense attitude about rape.“
— Camille Paglia American writer 1947
Context: I am being vilified by feminists for merely having a common-sense attitude about rape. I loathe this thing about date rape. Have twelve tequilas at a fraternity party and a guy asks you to go up to his room, and then you're surprised when he assaults you? Most women want to be seduced or lured. The more you study literature and art, the more you see it. Listen to Don Giovanni. Read The Faerie Queene. Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It’s part of the sizzle. Girls hurl themselves at guitarists, right down to the lowest bar band here. The guys are strutting. If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. Women have the right to freely choose and to say yes or no. Everyone should be personally responsible for what happens in life. I see the sexual impulse as egotistical and dominating, and therefore I have no problem understanding rape. Women have to understand this correctly and they'll protect themselves better. If a real rape occurs, it's got to go to the police. The business of having a campus grievance committee decide whether or not a rape is committed is an outrageous infringement of civil liberties. Today, on an Ivy League campus, if a guy tells a girl she's got great tits, she can charge him with sexual harassment. Chickenshit stuff. Is this what strong women do?
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„You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.“
— John Nash American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate 1928 - 2015
Context: You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers. A movie, by the way, was made — sort of a small-scale offbeat movie — called Pi recently. I think it starts off with a big string of digits running across the screen, and then there are people who get concerned with various things, and in the end this Bible code idea comes up. And that ties in with numbers, so the relation to numbers is not necessarily scientific, and even when I was mentally disturbed, I had a lot of interest in numbers.
Statement of 2006, partly cited in Stop Making Sense: Music from the Perspective of the Real (2015) by Scott Wilson, p. 117
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— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
„Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across the universe.“
— Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet 1498 - 1546
Mīrābāī, in ” Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West”, p. 251
„If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994