#over

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic system #form #government #illusion #live

The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#govern #ideas #left #need #problem

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#democratic #governed #imf #institutions #world

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#i #original #original sin #overabundance #sin

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#competition #i #illiteracy #poverty #unemployment

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#discover #endless #i #immense #literature

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#doing #get #heterosexual #i #into

If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#chance #could #discover #get #go

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#only #over #room #silence #sort

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.' ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#before #bruise #client #difficult #face