The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.
I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
I like to think that we've got a plan, so let's stick to it. That said, once we've stuck to it, we're allowed as much improvisation as anyone cares to indulge themselves in.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.
Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
I think actors are attracted to the idea of other identities and concealing themselves behind some other identity.
My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
