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Billy West Voice Actor
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"I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it. They didn't make up timeless voices. They used their own. They brought nothing to the table, in other words. There was no alchemy. That's why a cartoon was so alluring, was that a human being went into a place and created this supernatural sound, or whatever sound it was supposed to be that was totally unlike their own, and did it in multiples."

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Bill James Statistician
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"It is a very long and very difficult road from a fact to a conclusion. But it is a million times longer from a theory to a fact."

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Alan Robert Musician
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"We're on the computers, phones and tablets all day long, sometimes you just need to escape from the screens."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen."

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
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"For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged."

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
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"Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong."

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"One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite."

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Alton Brown Chef, Television Personality
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"I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him"

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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher
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"I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models]."

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