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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."

"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."

"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams."

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."

"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."

"I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum."

"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."

"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."

"Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?"

"The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language."

"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."

"All that I know I learned after I was thirty."

"A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil."

"The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity."

"Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?"

"Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished."

"Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months."

"This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America."

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."

"Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?"

"There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features."

"A film is a petrified fountain of thought."

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

"The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth."