"What kind of power was it if it would never be used?"
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"I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge."
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"She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director."
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"By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?"
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"And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood."
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"How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell."
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"It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete."
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"What is the most fascinating kind of self-deception to me, and a kind that isn't necessarily unhealthy, is what Friedrich Nietzsche called "strategic self-deception." The kind of self-deception that you can engage in with your eyes wide open. You do it because you say, "There's things that I couldn't accomplish without this kind of self-deception.""
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"I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like."
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"I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere."
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"Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're focused on what's inside your books, and that kind of term is generally used on the outside, by the critical establishment."
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"Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you."
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"Once you begin to talk about wealth inequality, especially as it relates to corporations and big banks, or engage in an indictment of U.S. foreign policy, you are really getting at the center of a society that is very fearful of that kind of critique."
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"As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear."
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"I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me."
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"I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up."
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"how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?"
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"When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience."
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"The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying."
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"All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live."
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