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The actual number of atheists is quite small outside of Europe and Manhattan.

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

Oh yes, as a matter of fact it is quite interesting that exercises can be conducted which demonstrate conclusively that there are memories which exist prior to this life.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.