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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can’t answer slurs, but I’m here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn’t.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

I don’t want to be known as a sex symbol. There’s a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn’t get serious with people. They don’t expect it from you, and they don’t want to see it. You’re not entitled to be serious, you’re a clown.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.