I’ve been thinking, lately, my whole life maybe, about who gets to sit down and at what cost.
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This is not 'bring down this man.' I'm talking about my love story. This made me who I am. I have no regrets.
— Babi Christina Engelhardt, Woody Allen's Secret Teen Lover Speaks
Facebook’s claiming that it is not selling user data is like a bar giving away a free martini with every $12 bag of peanuts and then claiming that it’s not selling drinks. Rich user data is Facebook’s most prized possession, and the company sure isn’t throwing it in for free.
— Michal Kosinski, Casey Newton, Why we can’t stop debating whether Facebook sells data
For me, holiday celebrations are never as fulfilling as the promise of holiday cheer suggests. So I made a choice: Instead of investing in complicated dynamics and being reminded of unresolved shit, I stayed in Alabama, 1,000 miles away from my real home and closest blood relative.
— Emma Bracy, The Holidays Are an Excellent Time to Do Whatever You Want
If William Shakespeare was alive today, he would be on Instagram
— Harman Kaur, Jessica Wong, Poets of Instagram inject new life, fresh voices into poetry genre | CBC News
Design is inherently political, but it is not inherently good.
Nature loves courage. If you don't have a plan, you become part of someone else's plan.
Once a culture has complete understanding of its genetic information, it reengineers itself for survival.
My tears felt dense and complex as blood.
The every-colored stars of imagining what one can imagine.
Doyle Lonnegan: Your boss is quite a card player, Mr. Kelly; how does he do it? Johnny Hooker: He cheats.
If she was here I'd probably be just as crazy now as I was then in about five minutes. Ain't that ridiculous?... Naw, it ain't really. 'Cause being crazy about a woman like her is always the right thing to do. Being an old decrepit bag of bones, that's what's ridiculous. Gettin' old.
— Larry Mcmurtry, Peter Bogdanovich, Sam the Lion, Ben Johnson, The Last Picture Show
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!
— Stanley Kubrick, Alexander DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange
You're the most beautiful, exciting thing I've ever seen in my life and I don't know anything about you.
— George Lucas, Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck, Curt Henderson, Richard Dreyfuss, American Graffiti
All the animals come out at night—whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to…
Mountain Man: What do you want to do now? Toothless Man: [grinning] He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he? Mountain Man: That's the truth. Toothless Man: [to Ed] You gonna do some prayin' for me, boy. And you better pray good.
Sonny: You'd like to kill me? Bet you would. Sheldon: I wouldn't like to kill you. I will if I have to. Sonny: It's your job, right? The guy who kills me... I hope he does it because he hates my guts, not because it's his job.
— Frank Pierson, Sonny Wortzik, Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon
Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of al…
Ahmet: Where are you going? Why don't you walk the wheel with us? What is the matter my American friend? What has upset you? Oh, a bad machine doesn't know that he's a bad machine. You still don't believe it? You still don't believe you're a bad machine? To know yourself is to know God, my friend. T…
— Oliver Stone, Billy Hayes, William Hoffer, Billy Hayes, Brad Davis, Midnight Express
I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be than…
— Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman, Alvy Singer, Woody Allen, Annie Hall