David Wojnarowicz Quotes
Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.
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Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
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My life changed completely. It's crazy now. It's kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world - just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn't be happier with life, really.
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Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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'I keep hoping you’ll tell me. You’re the god, after all. If I prayed to you for guidance, and you decided to answer, what would you tell me?''I wouldn’t answer.''Because you don’t care? Or because you wouldn’t know what to say?'More silence.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.
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But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.
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A lot of lawyers are set to tell me that it's not my fault I like to eat.
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I speak to God every day.
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People are used to cash, and getting them out of that is going to be a long and tough exercise.
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We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.
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My Twitter is a joke toilet, and I filter all these old, cringe-y parts of my brother and my childhood through that in an attempt to flush it down the drain forever.
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Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.
