"I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies."

-- Camille Paglia

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“I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.”
“What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?”

Source : "Asif Zardari: A Man With an Incredibly Attractive Personality". Interview with Arun Chacko, www.indiatoday.in. May 15, 1991.
“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”
“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.”
“All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.”
“Something in me wanted to find out how far I could run without stopping.”
“Many people who call themselves deflationists are deflationists about propositional truth but not about sentential truth. I only ever mention that view to distinguish it from disquotationalism. I don't really have any objection to it, other than that I don't believe in propositions, so I don't think there's any such thing as a proposition's being true. Truth, on my view, is primarily a property of representations, such as sentences and certain kinds of mental states.”
“You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.”

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