Cintra Wilson quotes

“Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window”
-- Cintra Wilson

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“Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.”
-- Cintra Wilson

Source : Cintra Wilson (2016). “A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations”, p.104, Wilberforce Codex

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“Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.”
-- Cintra Wilson

Source : Cintra Wilson (2010). “Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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“If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.”
-- Cintra Wilson

#Princess Quotes #Wind Quotes #Epilepsy Quotes

“It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning.”
-- Cintra Wilson

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“If Jesus is on Tim Curran's side and Occy is Jesus, who gets to win?”
-- Cintra Wilson

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“We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.”
-- Cintra Wilson

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“I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.”
-- Cintra Wilson

Source : "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.

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“Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.”
-- Cintra Wilson

Source : "Pissed about Palin". www.salon.com. September 10, 2008.

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“I heard my name." Ash's voice startles me. "You tow better not be making fun of me about this stupid bra Mama's making me wear. I've had it with the jokes. I'll break both your noses if it doesn't stop.”

“Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!”

“There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.”

“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.”

“Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.”

“Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.”

Source : "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.

“The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.”

“Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.”

“People need to learn to live with more risk.”