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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country."

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."

"Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me."

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

"Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?"

"Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."

"I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks."

"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."

"In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins."

"By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate."

"I know from the middle distance I give off the look of being prolific, which is a funny compliment to receive."
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