"'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'."
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"It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have."
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"I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life."
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"I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too."
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"I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere."
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"I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments"
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""But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."
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"Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it."
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"Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money."
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"It has been rumored that "Psycho" is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal."
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"We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood."
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"I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up."
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"People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger."
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"You meet rich people and you hang around with them, and one night they've had a few drinks and they say 'I'll buy it!' Then they tell their friends, 'You must have this person's work, darling,' and that's all you need. That's all it takes. Get it?"
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"During the '60s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered. I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle you can never think of them as real again. That's what more or less has happened to me. I don't really know if I was ever capable of love, but after the '60s I never thought in terms of 'love' again."
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"If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be."
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"I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack."
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"And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I’m going to go hide in the garage.'"
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"The unhappy are egotistical, base, unjust, cruel, and even less capable of understanding one another than are idiots. Unhappinessdoes not unite people, but separates them."
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"Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough."
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