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“Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.”
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“When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.”
Source : "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". 2001 edition,
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“The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and you don’t even have to read them. My books, for example, are unreadable. All you need to know is the concept behind them. Here’s every word I spoke for a week. Here’s a year’s worth of weather reports... and without ever having to read these things, you understand them.”
Source : "Against Expression: Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation". Poets.org Interview, www.poets.org. February 19, 2011.
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“My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.”
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“Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.”
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“They came up with a table of pictures of all the shapes of UFOs that have ever been recorded -about fifty ...The study of UFOs may reveal some new forms of energy to us,or at least bring us closer to a solution.”
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“I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.”
