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When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

Lady Jaye and I always thought black eyes were really sexy.

Change comes from reflection.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.

Change is not a linear process; it's an all-encompassing process, and it's alive in different ways.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

Life is hard, but we make it much harder.

My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.

I could have been bigger, but I wasn't controversial enough. I didn't do drugs or wreck rooms. There were no dramas in my private life.

This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.

Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.

If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

I had talent, and I was hungry for fame, and you can't say I didn't get it.

I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my bar mitzvah, the rabbi was in tears. He said to my parents, 'He must become a cantor in the synagogue,' but my mother said, 'No, he's going to be a concert pianist.'