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"When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him?"
"Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?"
"God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet."
"If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines."
"It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black."
"I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean."
"I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision."
"I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much."
"The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea."
"Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?"
"Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole."
"It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist."
"Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?"
"One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before."
"The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."
"What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation."
"If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself."
"The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end."
"When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it."
"He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it."
