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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."
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"I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth."

"Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people."

"When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'."

"When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard."

"I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall."

"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

"I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own."

"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting."

"We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing."
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