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"Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth."
"I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe."
"He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs."
"The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others."
"Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie."
"My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are."
"To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!"
"We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us."
"After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots."
"Immortals are never alien to one another."
"It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?"
"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion."
"I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be."
"The thing I love about New York is getting lost but not worrying, just wandering and wandering, knowing that there's always a subway only ten blocks away in any direction. There's always a new neighborhood to discover, a new place to lose your bearings in, and yet however alien it seems you can escape. You can always get a cab. All of life's problems can be solved by hailing a cab."
"A new Republican Congress is taking over. Sen. Ted Cruz has been appointed tooverseeing NASA in Congress. He says he wants NASA to focus on finding aliens so he can deport them."
"Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives."
"There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector"
"I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person."
"All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens."
"You have made me known to friends whom I knew not. You have given me seats in homes not my own. You have brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger... When one knows You, then there is no alien, and no door is shut."
