"Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness."

-- John Wilkins

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“I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.”
“The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.”
“With Dustin Hoffman, I just enjoyed the fact he was this flamboyent and very ironic person that still followed my desire to make Baldini in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer not simply a joke, or the funny guy, but also a personality and a character.”
“Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.”
“No one calls me out, I'm from LSU.”
“Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.”

Source : "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.”
“I wept not, so to stone within I grew.”

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