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"My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path."
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"It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker."
"I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking."
"I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs."
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
"I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way."
"If you want to be tall to see the world better, have some high thoughts!"
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"Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real."
"For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting."
"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 have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore."
"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."
"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."
"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."
"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
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