Mr. T: A Flower Unfolding
No more small-time stuff for Mr. T. No more bit parts, no more local talent jive....I call the shots. I am in a position to pick and choose. More movies, more TV commercials, talk shows, speaking engagements, banquets, receptions in my honor, autograph sessions, the red carpet treatment everywhere I go.
In the words of my pastor, Henry Hardy, Mr. T, you are a shining star. The heavens are warmed by your presence. You are a flower unfolding its petals. The universe is alive with your fragrance. You are a voice caressing the dawn. The silent spaces are filled with your joyous hope. This is your day! Live it in love because you are an expression of the life of God.
--Mr. T, Mr. T: The Man With The Gold. An Autobiography. St. Martin's Press, 1984.
Night Shift
We are only dogs chasing cars.
--Joseph Schumpeter
I was against the U.N. resolution on the use of force in the Persian Gulf. In fact, I debated Charlton Heston on the Donahue show.
--James Brown, The Nation. April 20, 1992.
What strikes us as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility; they see everything in terms of individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community exists.
--George Orwell, Charles Dickens. 1939.
...A world fouled by the gloomy usual.
--Barry Hannah, Scandal D'Estime
We are not, any of us, very nice.
--W.H. Auden, "Heresies," from Forewords and Afterwords
Am I to blame if hallucinations and visions are alive and have names and permanent residences?
--Karl Kraus, from Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths
It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.
--E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
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