My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
John McAfee
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I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans.
Andrew Rosenthal
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Ideas are the easy part. I spend a lot of time batting them away, trying to keep them from distracting me from what I actually have to focus on and finish. A lot of times, they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous.
Michael Chabon
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I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
Tony Kushner
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Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.
Robert Downey, Jr.
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I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.
Michael Masser
EducationMoreAnythingComeThan
I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.
Miranda Otto
TeenCoolThinkYouGoThrough
If you're going to give people 20 minutes of news satire, you've also got to give them Tiffani-Amber Thiessen or you're going to have rioting in the streets.
Jon Stewart
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I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
Denis Dutton
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A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.
Chevy Chase
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I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.
China Mieville
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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.
Chuck Palahniuk
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It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
Aretha Franklin
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