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[Riddy]

Ted Nugent (Ne-ENTp) Musician, Activist:

• I'll show you some security and I'll show you some peace: Nagasaki and Hiroshima. You fuck with us and we'll fucking melt you.
  
• I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.
  
• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
  
• I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
  
• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

Wayne Coyne (Si-ISFp) - Musician:

• I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.
  
• Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
  
• We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
  
• Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Bruce Campbell (Si-ESFj) - Actor:

• All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.
  
• Good... Bad... I'm the guy with gun.

Frank Zappa (Ne-INTj) - Musican:

• Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
  
• The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.
  
• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice — there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
  
• I'll tell you what classical music is, for those of you who don't know. Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago. And it's formula music, the same as top forty music is formula music. In order to have a piece be classical, it has to conform to academic standards that were the current norms of that day and age ... I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.
  
• Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.
  
• Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
  
• A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
  
• Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
  
• The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.
  
• Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.
  
• Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
  
• May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
  
• I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.
  
• Why should I smile when I'm sitting here with you?
  
• To me, absurdity is the only reality.
  
• The '60s was really stupid ... It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal. Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same. This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large... My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it... The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.
  
• You're an asshole! You're an asshole! That's right! You're an asshole! You're an asshole! Yes yes!

Okay...that was a lot of Zappa quotes, but he's fuckin' quotable.
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[Riddy]

Nikola Tesla (Ti-ENTp) - Scientist:

• A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified?
  
• Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
  
• Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
  
• If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
  
• I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.
  
• The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
  
• The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
  
• Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
  
• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
  
• I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts.
  
• Our first endeavors are purely instinctive prompting of an imagination vivid and undisciplined. As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing. But those early impulses, though not immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies.
  
• As I uttered these inspiring words the idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed.

[Ashton]

Good stuff, I like seeing sort of thing a lot because I think it really helps bring quadras into realistic perspective.

Did you ever check out this page before? I'd be curious to see what statements you think especially reflect on particular function themes.

[Riddy]

Ashton, on 04 August 2009 - 12:42 AM, said:

Good stuff, I like seeing sort of thing a lot because I think it really helps bring quadras into realistic perspective.

Did you ever check out this page before? I'd be curious to see what statements you think especially reflect on particular function themes.

Yeah that page is a great reference. It's probably the only decent (semi-)published research on socionics that I've seen.