Quotes for 2/1/2012

• I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it. (Sam Worthington)
• I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother. (Sam Worthington)
• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors. (Sam Worthington)
• And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. (Lester Bangs)
• As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. (Lester Bangs)
• Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means. (Lester Bangs)
• Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. (Lester Bangs)
• I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. (Lester Bangs)
• I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. (Lester Bangs)
• I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. (Lester Bangs)
• I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer. (Lester Bangs)
• I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices. (Lester Bangs)
• I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. (Lester Bangs)
• In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care. (Lester Bangs)
• It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. (Lester Bangs)
• Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down. (Lester Bangs)
• No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse. (Lester Bangs)
• No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything. (Lester Bangs)
• Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form. (Lester Bangs)
• Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that. (Lester Bangs)
• That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place. (Lester Bangs)
• The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. (Lester Bangs)
• The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. (Lester Bangs)
• The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. (Lester Bangs)
• When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. (Lester Bangs)
• You can't even get people to acknowledge that there's a problem. That's what floors me. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• It's very challenging work because of the level of contamination in the water. There were several toxins, ... They were also very early to arrive on the scene, and though they are equipped to sustain themselves, they really had to rough it. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• No one is going to convince me that if a bunch of white faces had been paraded out there, that the results of this would not have been different. Certainly, the issue of economics and race played a factor in this. When it comes down to it, there is an us and them. And I don't know how to change that. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• You can't stop people from innovating, and I don't see that our screen readers will be able to keep up with that. I still think it's worthwhile for a blind person to try a career as a programmer, but I do fear how well that person will do in the long term. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• Up to now, I've been able to avoid Windows NT because the computers that control the power system are for the most part VAXes. But as more things we use, such as time sheets and discrepancy reports, migrate to the NT network, I'll need to do NT. I don't know what will happen; all I can do is try. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• That's the most important piece of evidence, ... If there's one thing that could have convinced folks on both sides of the border that there was foul play, it was that body. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• He wasn't very confident of his IDs, ... In fact, I wouldn't go so far as to call them identifications. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• This settlement represents a big step forward in the efforts to protect Pikes Peak. We're very happy the city appears committed to do this work, and to do it on a binding schedule. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• If it was left solely to the devices of the government, that wouldn't have happened. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• There are two issues here. The heart of the settlement is the $14-21 million the city has agreed to pay to stop future problems along the highway. There's an additional $300,000 expenditure in the settlement to clean up areas already harmed by the sediment drainage. We think the Forest Service should help cover these costs. (Michael Hartley Freedman)
• Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. (Joe Strummer)
• There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down. (Joe Strummer)
• Do not go in there; do not sign with this company, or you'll end up like me - screwed and out on the street. (Joe Strummer)
• And I am a living legend, you bastards! (Joe Strummer)
• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. (Joe Strummer)
• Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. (Joe Strummer)
• When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. (Joe Strummer)
• Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it. (Joe Strummer)
• Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down. (Joe Strummer)
• I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book. (Joe Strummer)
• I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. (Joe Strummer)
• I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth. (Joe Strummer)
• What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that! (Joe Strummer)
• With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart. (Joe Strummer)
• Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it. (Joe Strummer)
• You've gotta be slightly stupid. (Joe Strummer)
• Feeling lucky punk? Oh, good. (Joe Strummer)
• Do not go in there; do not sign with this company, or you'll end up like me - screwed and out on the street. And I am a living legend, you bastards! (Joe Strummer)
• The Future is Unwritten (Joe Strummer)
• The future is unwritten. (Joe Strummer)
• I sometimes look at myself, I'm sitting with a biro and a cigarette packet, desperately scrawling dribble on it. And sometimes I put down my fag pack and think, what am I, a grown man, doing at this hour of the night? Then I banish that thought, pick the fag pack up again. (Joe Strummer)
• Everybody has a story to tell. (Joe Strummer)
• For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. (Joey Ramone)
• It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas. (Joey Ramone)
• I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. (Joey Ramone)
• The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. (Joey Ramone)
• Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam. (Joey Ramone)
• I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. (Joey Ramone)
• We're the only band that kept the guts, and kept the excitement, and kept the belief, you know. We never sidetracked. We never went the way of the Clash, and never wanted to get into the discotheques that bad. (Joey Ramone)
• I like you. You're all right. Actually, I like you better meeting you than if somebody had just given me your record. (Joey Ramone)
• We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard, ... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin ... overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be. (Joey Ramone)
• In our position, we've always done well, but we just haven't had that hit yet that put us over the top. We always break even. (Joey Ramone)
• I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band. (Joey Ramone)
• For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas. (Joey Ramone)
• Mel Torme is going glam metal. (Joey Ramone)
• The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. (Joey Ramone)
• We don't need sympathy from MTV. We don't need their charity. We didn't lose our contract MTV - it was over. We signed for a certain number of albums and it was finished. We always did well for Sire. We're a prestigious act. (Joey Ramone)
• Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world. (Joey Ramone)
• A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. (John Le Carre)
• America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember. (John Le Carre)
• Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it. (John Le Carre)
• During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. (John Le Carre)
• Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. (John Le Carre)
• Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. (John Le Carre)
• History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. (John Le Carre)
• I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. (John Le Carre)
• I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity. (John Le Carre)
• I happen to write by hand. I don't even type. (John Le Carre)
• I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. (John Le Carre)
• That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. (John Le Carre)

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