quotes about Bed Of Roses

“At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?”

“I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Source : "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

“There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.”

“Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.”

“No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.”

“How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.”

“I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one is looking to the outside for verification that what they're doing is all right.”

“It's important for me to have different tiers of value for the art. Some of the silk-screens are really affordable, but I do have some high-end silk-screens that are several color layers and a little more expensive, and then I have the paintings that can get way up there.”

“Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses?”

“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.”