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For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I aspire only to silence.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
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The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating.
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This entire opus is respectfully dedicated to all those who have loved unconditionally only to have their hearts unanaesthetically ripped out: Base not your joy on the deeds of others, for what is given can be taken away. No hope = No fear.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.
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I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.
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For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
