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"Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention. No vision, no critical thinking, no backup to her statements. Just to incite little riots everywhere and capitalize upon it financially. To me, she is a microcosm of the ultimate cynicism in American politics."
"Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?"
"Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought."
"Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery."
"Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded."
"No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy."
"It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process."
"Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration."
"What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'"
"I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole."
"I'm sorry, I'm a little busy. Can i ignore you later?"
"Actresses are kind of a little crazy."
"You're just a little too hip for the room. It's not good to be too hip because two hips make an ass."
"I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange."
"I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand."
"And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am"
"The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated."
"Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss."
"If you're behind the times, they won't notice you. If you're right in tune with them, you're no better than they are, so they won't care much for you. Be just a little ahead of them."
"There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them."
