"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years."

-- Alex North

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“In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.”
“I didn't go to the special screening on a spaceship where everybody goes to have their special screeningsEverybody knows that's what happens in Hollywood.”
“There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.”
“Whether a person is physically in front of you or not, the love remains.”

Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “The Friday Night Knitting Club”, p.237, Penguin
“Once when I was golfing in Georgia, I hooked the ball into the swamp. I went in after it and found an alligator wearing a shirt with a picture of a little golfer on it.”

Source : Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”
“I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.”
“silence is not weakness and decency is not pride”
“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.”

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