Jose Mujica Quotes
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been a partier.
-
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
-
I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
-
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
-
Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
-
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
-
You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
-
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
-
Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
-
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
-
Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
-
When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
-
I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
-
Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
-
I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
-
I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
-
My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
-
Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
-
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
-
I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
-
I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.
-
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn’t disconnect myself from it any longer.
-
You can start from any source material, and you can approach it with a jazz ear, and then it will become a jazz moment.
-
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
