#ali

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#been #bit #blessing #democratic #disguise

By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#bad #because #bottom #down #end

I am not insecure about being a journalist. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#am #being #i #i am #insecure

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. ↗

— George Carlin

#language #large #tool #truth

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#love #time #wounds #life

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bad #before #essential #good #good qualities

Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#fairytales #got #laugh #long #make

It's easy for me to go back to being a kid. You know how kids can be like savages before they get civilized? There's that sadist quality. Y'know, like boys who like to pick apart an insect for the sake of it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#back #before #being #civilized #easy

There is no normality in life. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#normality

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#appeals #away #chance #character #corpse