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Paul F. Tompkins
"The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time."
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Source : "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015. 
Paul F. Tompkins
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“The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change”
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“One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.”
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“If I put my mind to it, and I put the work in, I have no doubt I could do it (pitch 4-5 additional years), but I made a promise to the people who've supported me for so many years. It's time to give back to my family.”
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“I think we're going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I think we are today, but we were far stronger relative to the Communists 5 years ago. And what is of great concern is that the balance of power is in danger of moving with them. They made a breakthrough in missiles and by 1961, '2, and '3, they will be outnumbering us in missiles.”
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“Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.”
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“The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.”
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“I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?”
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“Belonging to the Catholic Church gives your support to an organization that conceals and protects child rapists. Again, not as a few isolated incidents, but as a massive, institution-wide culture, a matter of policy even, that extends throughout the organization and reaches all the way to the top. Belonging to the Catholic Church - giving them money, letting them count you in their rolls, sending your children to their schools - gives this behavior your personal thumbs-up, and actively enables it to continue.”
Source : "Why Is Anyone Still Catholic?". Article by Greta Christina, www.alternet.org. May 14, 2010.
