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"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."
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"It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things."

"It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years."

"We stopped doing my clothing line about five years ago, so it isn't available anymore."

"The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good."

"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."
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"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."

"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."

"I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while."

"I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room."

"If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing."

"I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it."

"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."
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