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" Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. "

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

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I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

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I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

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The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.

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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

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I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

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I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

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Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

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In the fashion world if you're successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It's hard to walk away, except it wasn't hard for me. I had my mind completely made up.

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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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I want to wait to have sex until I'm married.

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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

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Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

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America stands for the land of opportunity.

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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

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I think my recognizability ebbs and flows. I don't lead a particularly celebrity lifestyle or anything like that. I don't go to showbiz parties or red-carpet events, so it all depends on whether I've got a film out. I've not been very visible in the last year or so and as a result hardly anyone stops me in the street.

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I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

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If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

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Liberal soccer moms are precisely as likely to receive anthrax in the mail as to develop a capacity for linear thinking.

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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

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I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

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I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

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The best way to make a good deal is to have the ability to walk away from it.

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The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.

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You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

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I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

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Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

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Where love is, there God is also.

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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

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I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

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