Judith Sephuma Quotes & Sayings

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife ... — George Orwell

Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to allow for the self-serving bias of everybody else because most people are not going to remove it all that successfully, the human condition being what it is. If you don't allow for self-serving bias in your conduct, again you're a fool. — Charlie Munger

Times are a'changing, my man. Welcome to the new real world where fat people don't have to hate themselves anymore. Thank God for women like Melissa McCarthy and Adele so we can all start really believing that now. — Stephanie McAfee

Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules. — Bob Blumer

I've learned a long time ago if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be pleading the Fifth, and most Americans get it. — Tim Huelskamp

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth — Barbara Boxer

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. — Norman MacCaig

Hallucinogens then do the same job as religion - they provide proof of unity, which is still the only known cure for fear of death. — Steven Kotler

I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press. — Morrissey

It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face. — Graham Coxon

When we weren't being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster. — Slash

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told. — Marian Seldes

Thy fatal shafts unerring move;
I bow before thine altar, Love! — Tobias Smollett