“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
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“I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
Variant: I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
“In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots.”
Louis Tomlinson (1991) English pop singer
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson
“Don't worry about a thing,
'Cos every little thing is gonna be alright.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Three Little Birds, from the album Exodus (1977)
Song lyrics
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer
“Bing? Who the fuck uses Bing?”
Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter
After being asked "What about Bing?", after stating stats of 152 million Google searches for her name, in "Billie Eilish: Same Interview, The Third Year", Vanity Fair (25 November 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YltHGKX80Y8
Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019) American financier, science and education philanthropist and sex offender
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain book Following the Equator
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Song lyrics, Nevermind (1991)
Variant: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Source: This quote is generally attributed to Joseph Heller from his novel Catch-22, although it appears to be from the film version only (screenplay by Buck Henry.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AParanoia Territorial Pissings.
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
“Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Source: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
Variant: When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
