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"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."
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"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."

"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song."

"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."

"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."

"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."

"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."

"When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval."

"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."
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