Change

I wanted to be a doctor, but I fainted at the sight of blood. So I became an artist.

I felt the river of my life moving, yet... where was it going?

What can I do, if I have been driven out of acting professionally, if I can't write.

The most revolutionary thing a woman can do is not explain herself.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Rugby has the power to change lives. It can unite all races.

I want to redefine limits.

Your current situation is not your final destination.

We need libraries, not mere collections of data.

The best thing that the culture industry could do is suspend its operations for a certain period of time.

Transparency is the new form of control.

The only truly radical gesture is the one that cuts off your head, and in doing so, tears you away from the body of the Church.

I think that the task of a thinker today is not to provide answers, but to show that the way we perceive a problem is false.

The soundest generalizations about the people of Africa today are that they are diverse and that they are changing fast.

Identity is not as transparent or unchanging as we would like to think.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

To possess a character is to be able to consciously work on a complex and frequently changing system of dispositions and skills.

My generation is amazed at the fact that having seen the form of the world twice over, people still look for a 'post-modern' art.

Philosophy is a slow revolution, for it changes the rules of thought.