“Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. ”
“Poets are here to disturb the status quo.”
Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
This has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Petrarch. It comes most directly from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:
My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
Niccolò Machiavelli, who is also sometimes credited, wrote on the subject in The Prince:
It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
Misattributed
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
“Literature must avoid propaganda or moralism if it truly wants to be critical and open.”
Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/
Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/
“The city is not just a setting, but also a character with its own voice.”
Source: Interview to José Baroja. https://grupoigneo.com/blog/entrevista-jose-baroja-literatura/
“C4 to your door, no beef no more.”
Song lyrics, Ready to Die (1994), "Warning"
“If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear.”
“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
“Overcome the devils with a thing called love.”
“Anyone from anywhere can do anything.”
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway”
Robert Downey Jr. on Inside The Actors Studio, quoting Judd Nelson, 2006-07-09
“I don't care that they stole my idea.. I care that they don't have any of their own”
“I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?”
As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
Context: I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
“Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.”
The Devil's Notebook (1992)
