Feist Quotes

It's the way we are - our people show their respect to their leaders by keeping quiet. It is considered rude to speak your mind.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

When I first got into string-band music I felt like such an interloper. It was like I was sneaking into this music that wasn't my own... I constantly felt the awkwardness of being the raisin in the oatmeal.

My whole life, I've been told to 'wait my turn' and 'know my place.'

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

An administrator in a bureaucratic world is a man who can feel big by merging his non-entity in an abstraction. A real person in touch with real things inspires terror in him.

Those who know the least obey the best.

There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

Nothing should be noticed.

The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power.

My name is new in the field; and I suppose I am not the first choice of a very great many.

He learned too much and too early that victory goes to the discreet, that one does not speak one's opinion, that ideally one does not even develop one's opinion.

I don't like being surrounded by yes men.

I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.

I do whatever the manager tells us to do, really.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.