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“I've always been a big supporter of equal rights and encouraging people to be who they are.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.”
“She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.”
“I couldn't hit an elephant's ***** with a bull fiddle.”
“Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.”
“Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.”

Source : Ian Stewart (2007). “Letters to a Young Mathematician”, p.79, Basic Books
“Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.”
“The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie”

Source : "Keeping it (un)real". Interview with Neil Gaiman, www.wired.com. July 1, 2005.

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