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It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But… — Robertson Davies
Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And… — William S. Burroughs
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the… — Lauren Bacall
So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company… — Peter Lynch
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray… — Andre Breton
In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the… — Mark Burnett
I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition… — Mark Burnett
In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed,… — Mark Burnett
People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is… — Roger Ebert
Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream. — Lee Iacocca
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to… — Jane Haddam
I shop at a computer store called 'Your Crap's Already Obsolete'. — Jeff Cesario
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down… — Norman Lear
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger… — Jean Genet
I have tried a little kinky stuff. A woman called me and said, 'I have mirrors all over my bedroom. Bring a bottle.' I brought… — Rodney Dangerfield
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts,… — Sherwood Anderson
This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time.… — Stephen Hawking
I definitely believe that the so-called American decline is greatly exaggerated. — Al-Waleed bin Talal
I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not… — Paul Hawken
That many-faceted thing called love succeeds in building bridges from the loneliness on this shore to the loneliness on the other one. These bridges can… — Karen Horney
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and… — Huey Newton
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the… — Aleister Crowley
My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's. — Shelley Berman

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