Jane Fonda Quotes

Jane came from a life of privilege and a dynasty of stars but she chose to stand up, speak her mind about the Vietnam War and was vilified for doing it. She could have chosen an easier path. I admire that.
It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Life is in the moment. Each moment is a new start.
When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.
I’m not sure about that. Wounds go deep into the subconscious. But it’s a good start!
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.
I hope that is not true anymore.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Samsaras. We create the currents of our mind.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Perfection is hard to come by.
A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Some of them end with it too!
I don’t want my wrinkles taken away – I don’t want to look like everyone else.
Character stems from imperfections. Plastic beauty is shallow froth of no consequence.
I don’t think there’s anything more important than making peace before it’s too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.
Reconciliation is a great thing. It can bring joy.
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won’t complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
Understanding people is a major part of social life. Empathy and appreciation. Everyone has their demons. Every behaviour has a reason.
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
A revolutionary with words not weapons!

Quotes about Santa Claus/Father Christmas

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. Dick Gregory

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen – skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women. Sylvia Plath

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you’d stay up until three in the morning. You’d hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus. Chris Pine

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. Chuck Palahniuk

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus. Joe Nichols

We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. Karen Armstrong

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12! Danielle de Niese

Everyone thinks of God as a man – you can’t help it – Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. Patti Smith

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit… Santa, who was jolly – but, let’s face it, he was also very judgmental. Julia Sweeney

I’m concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn’t buy it, and she’s 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, ‘There is a Santa Claus,’ and she says, ‘Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?’ She really doesn’t believe. Salma Hayek

Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year. Victor Borge

The idea of God as a fatherly figure who looks down on us and worries about how we’re doing or takes sides when we have fights – it’s more irritating than Santa Claus. The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there’s not a puppet master. Dave Matthews

Mark E Smith Quotes

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They don’t come much more strange than the Fall. I’ve heard Mark sing half a concert while lying on a sofa in the dressing room. I’ve seen him singing behind the speakers with just the back of his head visible. He accosts his musicians, detunes instruments and generally disrupts. He is largely indecipherable. Yet the Fall have produced a body of work that is incredible. There is a Beefheart influence and a pile of riffs. The words are interesting. I don’t know where it’s coming from but it sure connects.

The thing with me, I can’t talk about my work. I find it very difficult.

Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.

A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren’t as smart as me..

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

When I was 18, the vision was to make music that didn’t exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

If you’re going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

If it’s me and your granny on bongos, then it’s the Fall.

Karl Marx Quotes – How well do they stand up?

A much maligned person was Karl. Vilified and painted as a communist ogre. What was he really? Someone who explored a fairer way of operating the world? Someone who offered a different vision to that of capitalism? Perhaps that is why capitalism conspired against him, his ideas and any attempt to put them into practice? Can Marxism work?
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
He didn’t much like religion. He thought that people clung to it for hope in a world that exploited them and abused them. He thought it stopped them thinking and trying to create something better.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Sometimes the idea of trying to change a system that is so entrenched and works in favour of the tiny minority who hold all the wealth and power and control the media, is futile.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Profit from the sweat of others.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Common ownership.
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.
Who controls us?
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Orwellian.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
A minority live well while a majority work to provide their opulence and live poorly.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
That’s an interesting thought isn’t it?

Tuli Kupferberg Quotes – The Fugs

Tuli was a founder member of the Fugs and a truly interesting man, poet, singer, songwriter, performer, writer and personality. He was a pacifist and a libertarian. He used a lot of humour!

“There was once a big atomic bomb
That wanted to be a bullet.
His friends all asked why, when he was such a big atomic bomb, he would want to be a tiny bullet.
“I miss”, he sighed, “the personal touch.”
I love this one. Once you had a sword and you had to get close, risk life and limb and apply strength, cunning and skill to kill your foe. It made it all immediate and terrible. You knew exactly what was involved in death – the fear, terror and agony. Now you just press a button and can wipe out millions of faceless people. It’s too easy.
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
We need to break a few patterns today. Better things need to emerge.
Nobody who lived through the ’50s thought the ’60s could’ve existed. So there’s always hope.
There is always hope. Out of dreadful things beautiful things can emerge. I am an optimist dreamer.
These were some of Tuli’s 1001 ways to beat the Draft put out by Sparrow.

724. Bring a gun and a target and at an appropriate moment (say the eye exam) lean the target against the wall and start shooting at it, screaming: “Kill the Commies! Kill the fucken Commies!”

427. Tell them God is on your side; if they say God is on their side, answer OK, it’s a draw, let’s go home.

845. Secede from the U.S. Set up your own country and demand to be treated as a prisoner of war under the Geneva agreements.

I’m not totally convinced that they would work in the way intended.

Jim Morrison Quotes.

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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
That makes great sense to me – except there are some fears that are hard to confront and some, like death, that you can’t.
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Science opens doors into knowledge, wonder and awe for me.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Me too. I’m not sure I’ll ever grow up and stop being a clown.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
I have very few complete friends. People only see one side or another.
Where’s your will to be weird?
I’ve still got it.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
We’re never so perfect as when we’re no longer here.
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
They make you alive! But sometimes they can be a pain.
This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
It’s the only one too!
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Perceptions of reality require perspective. There is no certainty and ultimately no facts.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
I fear they are perfecting it and manipulating us. Where’s democracy?

Bukowski Quotes

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Oh well – some things work and some things don’t.
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Boring lives. I’m crazy all the time.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
I’ve known a few.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Interesting perspective – makes you think.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
And who needs politics?
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
I’m alright then.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
On the other hand it might not.
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
How true that is. When things go wrong the true friends are right there.
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
Which is a lot more than a lot of people.
Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
Humans stink.

Bill Hicks Quotes

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
That is a great idea, isn’t it? We’ll wake up soon as someone else.
I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that’s how it comes out.
I don’t often feel like that but sometimes, when I look at what we are doing to the world, the cruelty, thoughtlessness, selfishness and greed, I get to feel angry and sad.
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
It destroys our creativity!
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.
I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.
Me too.
It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.
Why is it that we get pleasure out of other peoples’ pain?
Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.
They have it easy!
I live in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
That’s a bit like Steinbeck, isn’t it – the words of Tom Joad

Chuck Berry Quotes – One of the Greats of Rock ‘n’ Roll!

Chuck was brilliant. He invented a lot of the basic ingredients of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Although Johnny Johnson, his pianist, probably had a lot to do with it). His guitar riffs are instantly recognisable and fundamental. His songs formed a big percentage of many Rock Groups repertoire.

In the fifties he and Bo set the tone and brought black R&B and white C&W, with dollops of Chicago Blues, into Rock music.

Chuck was astute and homed in on the white teenage market yet he consistently produced songs that had more to them than just that. Cars, Dancing, School and Girls were the main themes. They were brilliant.

However as the fifties came to an end they wanted to shut down Rock ‘n’ Roll and Chuck got caught up in it. He found himself locked up on a trumped up charge.

Chuck had a big chip on his shoulder. He felt that he had been treated really badly and ripped off right left and centre by white promoters, record producers and club owners. It made him cynical. He put together scratch bands and did the minimum possible. The great songs (with a few exceptions) dried up, the performances were patchy (Unrehearsed and minimal input) and the creativity dried up.

What a shame. He was prostituting his talent.

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It’s amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

I think that is true in all creative endeavours.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.

That seems a bit contradictory to me. They are not the same thing. Science is about establishing how things work. It deals with reality. Religion is based on belief and has no factual substance.

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it’s an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation – where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that’s the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

This is the mindset that created decline. He wasn’t treating the music as a fun creative thing; it was a job that he had to do. I can’t understand why. If he had put his heart and soul into it he would have enjoyed it more himself. He was just eaten up with the way he had been exploited.

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

Thoroughly agree with the first two – but then I’d add pleasure, love, happiness, creativity, fulfilment, friendship way above wealth.

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Little Richard Quotes – One of the greatest Rockers in the world.

Little Richard was my favourite Rock ‘n’ Roll singer. The power of his performances blew me away when I stumbled across him as a twelve year old. He had a style that was unique and seminal. He made Elvis look tame.
That pompadour was something else!
However, I was a little unsure what I might find when I began to delve for a few quotes. I thought it might just be a lot of religious tosh. But I was surprised. This is a man who has lived, loved and travelled the world. He has tasted the fruits of success but also the bitter taste of discrimination, failure and fear. Little Richard’s lifestyle of orgies and religion seems to sum up a lot of the dilemma in American society of reconciling all the many aspects of what it is to be human. Suppression creates extremes.
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But men are so full of greed today, they’ll sell anything for a little piece of money.
That is the trouble. They are selling the planet for a song. There is no morality or scruples. We are being dragged along by businessmen who see everything in terms of cash. Every tree, animal and person is only worth the money that can be squeezed out of them. Logging, mining, exploitation…… nothing matters.
Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they’ve ever been is kicked.
Discrimination against gays is disgusting. Live and let live is my motto. Someone’s sexual orientation is nobody else’s business.
I don’t think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
Sadly, too many do. What we really need is an equality. If all our governments, boards and positions of power were 50% female we would have a better world. Women bring civilised sensibilities, empathy and compassion to bear. It is a great shame that many people seem to gravitate towards strength and black and white decisions – like we get with Trump – instead of a more nuanced, caring approach. Yet time after time it is the strong leaders that cause all the problems.
It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.
When you come from a position in society where you have been poorly educated and discriminated against there aren’t too many ways out. Sport and entertainment have provided a route for many. Let’s hope we can build a world where they aren’t the only outlets. People need to be recognised for their ability not their colour or gender.