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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."

"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

"I like boring things."

"Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art."

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. "

"I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from "Thank God it's Friday" to "Thank God it's Monday." If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent."

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be."

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world."

"The more things doctors are able to do, the more likely that at least a few doctors won't do them. And the result will be more people suing for negligence."

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."

"All art requires courage."

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind."

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."

"Failure is impossible."

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

"Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

"Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution."

"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."