"They say Im demonic in humor in the sense that I think people need somebody to wake up their mental processes."
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"The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!"
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"There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use."
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"To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending."
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"You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family."
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"There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time."
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"Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches."
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"Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do."
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"Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation."
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"One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed."
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"Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love."
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"I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own."
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"What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people."
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"I want people to smile when they hear my name. I love everyone. I want to help make it a better time for the kids after me."
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"The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state."
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"I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States. And many of the Muslims, they are not totally dedicated to this country. They are not dedicated to our Constitution. Many of them are trying to force Sharia law on the people of this country."
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"There are people who make things happen. There are people who watch things happen and then there are people who ask well, what in the heck happened?"
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"Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon."
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"When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn."
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"You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself."
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