Posts tagged quotes

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer

14kgoldnyc:

“Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.”

— Kanye knows how money works. (via mattgorman)

Marijuana will be legalized soon after enough big companies realize, “wait, we can make money off this shit!”

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I reject the argument that says for the economy to grow we have to roll back [regulations]. We shouldn’t be in a race to the bottom, where we try to offer the cheapest labor and the worst pollution standards.
President Barack Obama (via climateadaptation)
“Advertising in its entirety constitutes a useless and unnecessary universe. It is pure connotation. It contributes nothing to production or to the direct practical application of things, yet it plays an integral part in the system of objects, not merely because it relates to consumption but also because it itself becomes an object to be consumed.”

“Advertising in its entirety constitutes a useless and unnecessary universe. It is pure connotation. It contributes nothing to production or to the direct practical application of things, yet it plays an integral part in the system of objects, not merely because it relates to consumption but also because it itself becomes an object to be consumed.”

xnachtschwarmerx:

“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

— Chuck Palahniuk (via #johannal) (via quote-book)

It sounds like it should be from Lullaby but it’s really from Choke.

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baitandswitch:

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant

— JG Ballard

“Boy stop, I’m just playin’; let me cut you up.”

— Lyric from Big Boi’s Shutterbug, or line from Bret Easton Ellis’s Imperial Bedroom?

“The Interview was not a happy invention. It is perhaps the poorest of all ways of getting at what is in a man.” — Mark Twain’s newly discovered, unpublished essay, Concerning the Interview. Full text here.

“The Interview was not a happy invention. It is perhaps the poorest of all ways of getting at what is in a man.”

— Mark Twain’s newly discovered, unpublished essay, Concerning the Interview. Full text here.

“Well, that’s your opinion, isn’t it? And I’m not about to waste my time trying to change it.” — Lady Gaga

(via fuckyeahgaga)

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
Preach, Lady Gaga.