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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."

"Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all."

"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."

"An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country."

"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."

"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
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"It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house."


"I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight."


"When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'."


"We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success."


"I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall."


"When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard."


"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."


"I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done."


"Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right."
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