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- A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work…
- The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
- Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors…
- Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does…
- Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is…
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.
- Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years…
- The arts are not a way to make a living,
- Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow...
- I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...
- The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well…
- Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't…
- I want a military funeral when I dieāthe bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a…
- Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible…
- Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when…
- Life is no way to treat an animal.
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
- If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
- I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue…
- In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.
- Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard…
- The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea…
- Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment…
- We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy.…
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen