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"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
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"We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations."
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"When I see the promotion of nighttime street lighting to the masses, I realize the great level of incompetence that is present in governments, human health and the biological effects of light."
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"The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot."
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"Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway."
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"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."
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"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."
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"People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize."
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"For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker."
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"Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art."
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"When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again."
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"In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job."
Age
"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."
America
"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."
Drink
"I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things."
Care
"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
Criticism
"I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary."
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"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun."
Fun
"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."
Music
"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."
Artist
"I don't know why people thought I was retiring."
Thought
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