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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."

"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

"We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves."
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"Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity."


"It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it."


"I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision."


"I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way."


"I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go."


"Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge."


"But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all."


"The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact."


"You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold."
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