Freigeist Capital Quotes & Sayings

Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that. — Raf Simons

Whatever that guy is buying, I want to short it. — Michael Lewis

Life is a game.
You win or lose.
Everything else is a compromise and an excuse. — Rajesh Sarna

But a show of force by the mightiest nation on earth isn't going to do anything except convince them that their attitudes are worth holding on to. Soon they'll be martyrs and world opinion will think the British Empire nothing but a big bully too fond of waving the big stick. — Susan Howatch

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading. — Ray Bradbury

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running. — Roger Ailes

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film. — Kathryn Bigelow

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms — Jaron Lanier

Was it the shrill, sickly tone I heard everywhere that I couldn't stand, the one that arose from all the pseudo people and pseudo places, pseudo events and pseudo conflicts our lives passed through, that which we saw but did not participate in, and the distance that modern life in this way had opened up to our own, actually inalienable here and now? — Karl Ove Knausgard

I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, — Oscar Wilde

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life. — Carl Jung