"I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not."
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"None of the rest of my life figures here."
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"I collect wrestling figures from overseas, like Japanese wrestling figures and Mexican wrestling figures."
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"A southerner would fry a salad if he could figure out how."
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"The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground."
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"Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks."
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"You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love."
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"I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be."
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"Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring."
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"I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along."
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"Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out."
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"In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity."
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"One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do."
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"I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure."
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