"Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

-- Thomas Huxley

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“When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.”
“As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who hiss orcheer as he attempts to approximate the masculine ideal, who push him to sacrifice more of his humanity for the sake of his masculinity, and who ridicule him when he holds back. The chorus is made up of all the guy's comrades and rivals, his buddies and bosses, his male ancestors and his male cultural heroes--and above all, his father, who may have been a real person in his life, or may have existed only as the myth of the man who got away.”
“A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.”
“To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”
“I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.”
“There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.”
“The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.”
“It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.”

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