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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."
"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."
"Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information."
"For your information, I would like to ask a question."
"I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends."
"Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5."
"As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy."
"Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information."
"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
"Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him."
"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
"I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done."
"Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue."
"I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now."
"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
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