Quotes of famous people

“When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine."”

“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”

“I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.”

“Birkenstock desert boots have been a part of pop culture since the beatniks. I made such a fuzz about them being discontinued that the company send me an "lifetime supply", which initially turned out to be seven pairs at two years apiece. They weren’t giving me very long. I think that’s why I gave up smoking.”

“What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.”

“One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems… wars, nations, destructions… to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.”

“Good morning starshine the earth says hello….”

“99% of my life I was lied to. I just found out my mom does more dope than I do(Damn!). I told her I'd grow up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it after her”

“If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to
wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.”

“There are four basic human needs: food, sleep, sex and revenge.”

“Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.”

“It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.”

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”

“I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”

“When people stop shuddering at the pain of others, crime no longer needs executioners: consent is enough.”

“The foundation and strength of human evolution lie in empathy.”

“Frustration and desperation are on the same floor as naivety.”

“The UN’s silence in the face of Trump is the final stone in its own grave.”

“There will remain the trace of Trump and right-wing policies: warped decisions, brutal words, and the habit of treating human dignity as a nuisance.”