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"No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney."
"If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy."
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"I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy."
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
"It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple."
"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
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"My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well."
"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later."
"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
"Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country."
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
"There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser."
"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."
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