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"You shouldn’t need a Bible to tell you to protect our planet, but it does anyway."

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opp…"

"'Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.'"

"Cut corners and it'll always come back to bite you in the ass." That was one of her sayings."

"As the aphorism says, If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

"Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. And that makes the whole thing mutual — America sees two John Kerrys."

"The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen."

"I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic."

"It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?"

"It was a lot to ask of Annie, but I never had to. There was no cautious conversation in which I broke the news to her, or asked her permission- I didn't need to. I knew that for as long as I wore the …"

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else."

"Interview on IT Conversations"

"Tell me how bad I am... it makes me feel so good."

"Speech delivered by Harry Bridges to the Comstock Club of Sacramento, California on June 6, 1967"

"Autobiographical essay at the official Nobel site"

"I tell anyone who asks me – Scholes is the best English player."

"It is too soon to say."

"How famous am I? No more famous than you.' Well, no, you are considerably more famous than I am. 'Says who? Fuck it. Kelly Osbourne's more famous than me."

"I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes."

"508. He that tells a secret is another's servant."