"We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

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“The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn”
“There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.”
“You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.”
“I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.”

Source : "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.
“You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.”
“My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.”
“When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.”

Source : Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub
“Anyone with a point of view loves it when they sway someone who disagrees with their point of view. I don't think that's a noble endeavor, though. And I don't think, as an endeavor, you really ever have a chance.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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