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"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious."

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."

"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."

"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
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"I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back."

"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."

"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."

"My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time."

"I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with."

"Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success."
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