quotes about Imitating

“Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.”

“There is a difference. If you kill to take money or rob, it is plain murder, but if you kill because of political reasons, that is a political murder.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 297, 2010.

“We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”

“I take it personal when people don't double me. It's against my religion not to double me. It upsets me. It makes me think they're saying to themselves I don't have it anymore.”

“Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.”

“I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!”

“There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but I can explain that the thinking of the time was that we didn't want to emulate our heroes. That wasn't kosher. 'Don't try to play the old cliches, play like yourself' - that's what people were saying”

“Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping”

“As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.”

“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”