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"I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
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"To sit on the stile would be to continue a familiar existence. To cross the stile would be to begin something new."
"There's no difference between one's killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It's exactly the same thing, or even worse."
"Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment."
"You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made."
"I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems."
"The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past."
"Don't think so. We all make our choices, and those choices have consequences."
"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."
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"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times."
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