#che

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#business #given #headaches #king #me

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort. ↗

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#affluence #ancient #comfort #culture #forced

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#every #good #him #i #instructs

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#even #i #most #remark #serious

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#care #check #clears #i #long

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe. ↗

— Michael Palin

#art #country #cultures #drama #genuinely

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#being #dream #dreams #falling #feels

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#better ways #blue #blue jeans #corps #exchange