"Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth."
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"Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking."
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"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."
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"You are doing better than you think you are."
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"I used to drink, I did, I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing to their lights thinking I'd made it to another club."
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"With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we're all only so confident. It doesn't mean we think we're great looking or anything. It's all a façade."
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"I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public."
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"I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips."
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"Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?"
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"I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human and so you didn't respect their desire to be connected to a family and a place. That was the only way you could tolerate and make sense of lynching and the terror that lynching represented."
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"I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes."
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"Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head."
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"If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing."
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"The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think."
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"There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap."
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"I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other."
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"It might not look it but rocking in a corset is harder than you think"
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"Most people in America think Art is a man's name."
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"think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!"
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"Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another."
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