"I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages."
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"In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought)."
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"Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there."
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"How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?"
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"A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock 'n' roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like colored people. Let's face it: I can't sing like Fats Domino can. I know that."
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"What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!"
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"I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself."
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"One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is."
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
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"I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?"
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"I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!"
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"I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life."
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"One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts."
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"In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable."
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"When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants."
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"Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?"
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"There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women."
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"Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support."
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"The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing."
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"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here."
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