"Instant gratification is not soon enough."
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"I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red."
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"I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings."
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"Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage."
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"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
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"I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them."
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"The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception."
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"I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds."
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"Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood."
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"...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable."
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"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."
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"He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating."
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"Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters."
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"Assume a virtue if you have it not."
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"Simply the thing that I am shall make me live."
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"I must be cruel, only to be kind."
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"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."
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"I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?"
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"I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong."
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"All human activity is fruitless when pitted against the girls and boys singing on pop television, for they have found the answer as the rest of us search for the question. I will sing, too. If not, I will have to die."
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