“We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 112 of 169
“But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.”
“Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.”
“I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.”
“We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'”
“It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.”
“I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.”
“We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.”
“In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.”
“I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.”
“Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”
“Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!”
“There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.”
“I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!”
“If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.”
“It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth.”
“T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
“Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.”
“Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.”
“Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.”