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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

It's fun to write your set list 20 minutes before and keep the crew very much on their toes.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Well the thing is that the New York of 1846 to 1862 was very different from downtown New York now. Really nothing from that period still exists in New York.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.