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"For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart."
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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
"I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because, by and large, we don't have the brainpower to grapple with it. Instead, the enormous zest for science that I see in first-graders and the lesson from the remnant hunter-gatherers both speak eloquently: A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future."
"Graduate study is an intensive education. You have to be diligent and determined from the beginning to the very end."
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"I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point."
"The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something."
"I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans."
"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
"There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful."
"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."
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