Daniel J. Bernstein Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
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Margaret Thatcher was pro-choice. She voted to decriminalize homosexuality. Was not profoundly religious. She was very liberal on social issues.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work.
