"It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools."

-- Stephen D. Cox

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“Man's best support is a very dear friend.”
“Westward the star of empire takes its way.”
“The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.”
“We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.”
“I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”
“In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?”

Source : Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2008.
“Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.”
“Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.”

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