"I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet."
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"A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says."
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"A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation."
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"I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural."
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"Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience."
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"Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth."
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"Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority."
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"To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty."
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"Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be "Stands in Confusion"."
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"The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with."
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"I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate."
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"We don't need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to - to choose the right choice, not these false choices."
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"It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent."
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"If this lady is pleased to spend her days with Franklin, he would be just as pleased to spend his nights with her."
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"I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster."
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"I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be."
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"It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished."
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"That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me."
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"I think a bad place for a fire would be the factory where they make those trick candles."
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"A good name for a gang would be The Uneducated Idiot Tough Guys."
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