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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
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"Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car."

"So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills."

"We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant."
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"I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out."

"Never have more children than you have car windows."

"I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys."
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"Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human."

"The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff."

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

"The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows."
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