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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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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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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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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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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Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.
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Music, in its clearest and simplest form, can be a catalyst to thought, but that's about it.
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The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.
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Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.
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I'm told sometimes I look like Goldie Hawn, and I get chuffed about that.
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The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?
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We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.
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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.
