"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."

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"Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse."

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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."

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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."

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"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free."

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"I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded."

Cathy Freeman, Australian Athlete

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"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."

Roger Daltrey, English Musician

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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."

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

George Orwell, British Author

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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

George S. Patton, American Soldier

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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office."

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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to."

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"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented."

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"Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."

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"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."

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"The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion."

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"I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth."

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"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America."

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"I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults."

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