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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

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• I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Soul
  • Said
  • Everything

• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Republican
  • Candidate

• The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • You
  • Down
  • Step

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.

  

  Washed Out
  • Job
  • Like

• People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Gift
  • Birthday

• I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?

  

  Owen Hart
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Stupid

• I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Father

• Sneakers are not my thing.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Thing
  • Sneakers

• Cryptocurrencies are an emergent property of the Internet - almost a fifth protocol in the Internet suite. If Satoshi Nakomoto did not exist, it would still be necessary to invent them.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Internet
  • Exist
  • Almost

• Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Kids
  • Strong
  • Moral

• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Fear
  • Reason
  • Calm

• When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Loved
  • Kid

• The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.

  

  Nick van de Wall
  • Passion

• If there's one thing you can say about my apartment it's that it's constantly evolving, constantly changing. I think that is the mark of a good apartment; you can never really be done - It's like a proper wardrobe.

  

  Lauren Santo Domingo
  • Good
  • Done

• When you have less risk, you have more fun. You can take risks. It's much easier to take risks when there's less money on the line.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Risk

• ...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Free
  • Freedom

• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Men
  • Eye
  • Angry

• Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

  

  Studs Terkel
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