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"I hate when people go on TV and tell you how hard it is to do animation. No, no, no. UPS is hard work. I’ve done some animation and here's how easy it is. The easiest job in the world. I go in a booth and I go, what’s the line? And the guy goes, it’s time to go to the store. And then I go, it’s time to go to the store. And then they gave me $1 million."
"When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary."
"As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there."
"To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn."
"hate contains truth. beauty is a facade."
"You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them."
"I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked."
"You know when grandparents get older and they can't do things for themselves anymore? I'm gonna struggle with that. Because I hate depending on people to do anything for me."
"I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive."
"It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State."
"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."
"I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity."
"All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies."
"I've been very careful about what I say yes to and what I say no to. And I think seriously always about... this may be a good idea right now or it may be a lot of money right now, but will it be good for me five years from now? Will it be fun? Will it make me hate myself? I think about all of those things."
"Theres no hope, none, of ever talking about it without pissing somebody, if not everybody, off...By the end of this hour I will be seen by many as a terrorist sympathizer, a Zionist tool. A self-hating Jew, an apologist for American imperialism, an orientalist, socialist, fascist, CIA agent, and worse."
"The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart."
"The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore each other. And we both realize what a rare thing this is."
"I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live."
"If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic."
"When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists."
