"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”
“One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.”
“The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.”
“I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?”
“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.

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