Quotes of the day, November 23

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

William Blum

• Government
• Imagine
• Conspiracy

I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon 2000, and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.

Owen Wilson

• Character
• Play
• Girls

In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse.

Avey Tare Animal Collective

• Singing
• Repetitive

The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.

Keith Matthew Thornton

• Technology
• Mean
• Artist

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

Richard Widmark

• Should
• Performers