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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
Being
"Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on."
Trust
"I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered."
People
"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
Thinking
"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."
God
"I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives."
Army
"There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter."
June
"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit."
Marriage
"I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't believe in God, but I don't think I do. But I believe in people who do."
God
"If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?"
First
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