"[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism."
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"The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are."
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"The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life."
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"The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me."
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"The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate."
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"It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural."
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"Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous."
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"The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow."
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"Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous"
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"A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous."
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"The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work."
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"Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate."
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"The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem."
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"Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception."
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"Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous."
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"The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing."
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"Assent - and you are sane - Demur - and you're straightaway dangerous - and handled with a chain."
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"[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people."
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"Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame."
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"You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way."
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