“I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.”

— Kim Harrison

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Pseudonym 1966

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Source: Naruto, Vol. 01: The Tests of the Ninja

“I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.”

Richard Griffiths (1947–2013) British actor

Observer interview (2005)

“Now I've been hangin' 'round you for days,
Bt when I lean in you just turn your head away.
Oh no, you didn't mean that.
She said I love the way you think, but I hate the way you act.”

Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician

Steal My Kisses.
Song lyrics, Burn to Shine (1999)

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman

As quoted in: [J. L.] Elkhorne. Edison — The Fabulous Drone, in 73 Vol. XLVI, No. 3 (March 1967) http://www.arimi.it/wp-content/73/03_March_1967.pdf, p. 52
Disputed

“Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.”

Jasper Johns (1930) American artist

Jasper Johns in Tokyo, Yoshiaki Tono, Tokyo August 1964, as quoted in Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews, ed; Kirk Varnedoe, Moma New York, 1996, p. 104
1960s

“I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.”

Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a13040159/billie-eilish-interview/

“Getting hurt changed me, he said. Changed my perspective. I've moved on, in a way. Some things have fallen into place that were not there before. I thought they were, but they werent. The best way I can put it is that I've sort of caught up with myself. That's not a bad thing. It was overdue.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men (2005)

“There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.”

Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères

Il n'y a au monde que deux manières de s'élever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbécillité des autres.
Aphorism 52
Les Caractères (1688), Des biens de fortune

“It's not necessary to be born again. You have your way to God, I have mine. I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine … I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. … Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

On a Phil Donahue Show in 1984, as quoted in The Sword of the Lord (14 December 1984)

“In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots.”

Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist

As quoted in The Daily Of The University Of Washington (1989-05-05).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print

“I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.”

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