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"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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"I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me."
"I do not have a beautiful face, soft skin or a pretty smile, but I know how to inspire a bunch of pretty and lovely girls."
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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."
"Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that."
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