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- We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - )
- I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man.
- Bill Hicks, Comedy routine
- I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That's what I do.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - )
- I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Algernon from The Importance of Being Earnest
- Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD-ROM)
- You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
- Lindsay Lohan (1986 - )
- A crow is no whiter for being washed.
- French Proverb
- Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)
- Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
- Agnes Macphail
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