"Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere."
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"Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you."
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"I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean."
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"My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul."
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"If you want to meet girls, by far the best method is to carry a baby or a puppy."
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"Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend."
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"The fashion editor as it used to be has changed. Now you have to wear many hats, and whoever tells you differently is wrong. Now you're on TV, whether you want it or not."
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"If I want to take a particular form of blues somewhere else I have the equipment to do it but I never even thought of it."
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"The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created."
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"If you want to talk about distributing substances that are lethal, . . . let's be serious. Tobacco is far ahead of anything else. Alcohol is second."
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"I don't want followers."
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"The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined."
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"The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns."
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"My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence."
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"If you want to end terrorism stop participating in it."
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"The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him."
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"You know, you can go to the fiftieth thing on a Google list and that's the one you want, but the ones you are going to be directed to are the funders."
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"We should not want to permit providers, for example to have control over access."
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"You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections."
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"If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified."
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