Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

When I am weak, then I am strong.

There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

Daddy's working boots have taken many steps for us.

The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high.

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.