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"The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice."
"I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness."
"People are simply not willing to look at their problems honestly and admit that they have problems."
"When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it."
"All new learning looks at first like chaos."
"It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one."
"When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of food itself."
"Half the people I look who are health food addicts look sickly to me. Let's start taxing health food. Somebody force a burger down some of these people's jaw because they look a little pale and wan to me."
"We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'"
"Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy."
"My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures."
"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
"I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it."
"I can look at something that others (might not) and I can see the value in it. I can make that film a film that everybody wants to see."
"Look into the mirror of the world, and you will see only yourself."
"...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones."
"We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'"
"Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up."
"I look at melody as rhythm."
"When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working."
