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“I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.”
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“..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they themselves, upon their own topics, if they argue consistently, must allow to be solid and satisfactory.”
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“Sometimes I was so funny I couldn’t stand myself.”
Source : Moira J. Moore (2006). “Resenting the Hero”, p.75, Penguin
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“There is true freedom in letting go.”
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“A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.”
Source : 'Kulchur' Spring 1962 'Tokenism'
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“What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I was HIV positive...”
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“Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.”
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“When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.”
Source : Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.