“The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War.”
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“Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.”
“Well, it's an ancestral tribe. These were immigrants from north of Germany who came here about the time of the Civil War, but anyway, these people called themselves free thinkers. They were impressed, incidentally, by Darwin. They're called Humanists now; people who aren't so sure that the Bible is the Word of God.”
“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”
“I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”
“The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.”
“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.”
“Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!”
“I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program.”
“Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.”
“I'm not giving away oil for free. Just using oil, first to benefit our people, to relieve poverty.”
“I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.”
“I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born.”
“I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.”
“It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.”
“If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.”
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.”