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"Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do."
"God is not obligated to anoint what He does not initiate."
"You can do crap work in a big movie, and it does good things. You can do great work in a movie no one sees, it does nothing. That's the way it goes."
"Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life."
"Yes, etiquette is hypocritical. Yes, it does inhibit children - if you're lucky. But the idea that it's elitist and irrelevant is like saying language is elitist and irrelevant."
"The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free."
"Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it."
"When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell."
"Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?"
"I cannot imagine a scenario where Donald Trump does better than Mitt Romney with the Hispanic vote."
"Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does."
"Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it."
"The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."
"Morality does not depend on religion."
"Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces."
"Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?"
"A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them."
"To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence."
"Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway."
"It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad."
