"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."

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"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."

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"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sht and fck". ['Tolerance zero']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Many buy gadgets they don't really need, with money they don't have, for people they don't actually care for, while infringing their corporeal and financial capacities, in order to pay doctors and psychiatrists.['Keeping up with the Joneses']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn't. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn't."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Society, Today, Truth, Change, Social

"There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Society, Politics, Lies, Truth, Manipulation

"Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Society, Conformity, Living, Approval

"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Society, Goal, Confusion, Perfection, Aging

"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Chomie' is South African homosexual men's unofficial name."

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"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."

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"There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond."

"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"

"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."

"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

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"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."

"You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world."

"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."

"We children learned responsibility automatically."

"It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children."

"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sht and fck". ['Tolerance zero']"