"Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar."

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Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

John L. Casti

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“You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.”
“My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.”
“You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.”
“Civilization after civilization, it is the same.Â The world falls to tyranny with a whisper.Â The frightened are ever keen to bow to a perceived necessity, in the belief that necessity forces conformity, and conformity a certain stability.Â In a world shaped into conformity, dissidents stand out, are easily branded and dealt with.Â There is no multitude of perspectives, no dialogue.Â The victim assumes the face of the tyrant, self-righteous and intransigent, and wars breed like vermin.Â And people die.”
“When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.”
“I just look at what's the most fun thing I can do next. I'm not looking to prove anything, or to break out or to break away. I feel so lucky, honestly, that I'm still working.”

Source : "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.
“I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .”

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