"I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune."
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"There's so much destruction all over the world - and all you can do is complain about ME!"
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"I see the world, it makes me puke, But then I look at you and know, that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me."
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"It was probably nothing, but it felt like the world."
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"In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going."
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"It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective."
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"I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into."
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"Let's make the haystack smaller. Let's say for a while, until we can figure out who's coming, who's going, and who's overstayed their visa, let's have extra scrutiny and figure out what's going on, because there's a whole segment of the world that is intent on sending people here to attack us."
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"The main question raised by the thriller is not what kind of world we live in, or what reality is like, but what it has done to us."
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"I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will."
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"I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us."
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"Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history."
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"I think more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me."
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"How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you."
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"There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone."
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"The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world"
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"I set out to try to help my fellow man and to do what little I could to make the world a better place."
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"Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence."
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"The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard."
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"Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people."
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