"You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world."
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"We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right."
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"The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC."
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"Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government."
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"We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it."
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"Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things."
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"New York is a wonderful city... It is going to be the capital of the world."
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"Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten."
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"The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite."
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"Stupidity is much the same all the world over"
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"It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world."
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"When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie."
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"I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence."
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"When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him."
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"If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels."
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"I would certainly never want to inflict anything on the world exactly as [Buckminster Fuller] envisioned it because there is a technocratic worldview that I find horrific."
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"I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world."
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"I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out."
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"The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men."
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"When I sort of step in my jazz world, it's somewhere between instrumental jazz and vocal jazz."
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