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"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."
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"Dignity is a quiet strength which reflects your deep honor and self-respect. It is a gracious pride without narcissistic projection and portrays a calm awareness and generosity of spirit regardless of the environment or circumstances."
"Through change and challenge, if our personal foundations are built with quality virtues of character and integrity, we are more resilient, healthy, and ultimately more impressive."
"How a person treats wait staff speaks volumes about their character and values. If they misbehave in this scenario, you can likely predict how they will react when cut off in traffic, when their luggage is lost, or when life doesn't go their way. It is also an indicator to CEOs and hiring managers as to whether a person is a viable candidate for being a considerate team player."
"Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
"Humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice."
"I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]"
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"Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying."
"While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht."
"I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do."
"I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know."
"When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience."
"When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor."
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
"The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin."
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
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