quotes about Surplus

“They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Source : Remarks to the Religious Roundtable in August 1980. "The Hidden Election: Politics and Economics in the 1980 Presidential Campaign". Book by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, 1981.

“When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.”

“I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.”

“Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.”

“Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.”

“Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.”

“When Depeche Mode put out a single you knew that a week later you could go and buy the 12" and it would have six versions and they were all better.”

Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

“On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.”

“A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.”

“Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.”