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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues."
Jokes
"We used to play baseball back in that field and keep an eye out for the bulls."
Baseball
"According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work."
Work
"The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry."
Argument
"I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there."
Family
"I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees."
Trees
"I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us."
Animals
"I had travelled pretty widely around the world even before then, so I knew where to go to film wildlife."
Film
"The biggest challenge is how to affect public attitudes and make people care."
People
"Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature."
Nature
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