I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

Harriet Harman

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history.

Renata Adler

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

Ellie Goulding

College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

Bill Gaede

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Germaine Greer

This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

Kurt Vonnegut

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth

Henrik Ibsen

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I had plenty of offers to do sponsorships and TV commercials, but it's just not in me. I would love to get that out of me, but I just don't feel comfortable with it.

Mark Viduka

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

Oliver North

Education is the vaccine for violence.

Edward James Olmos

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

James Baldwin