"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."

-- Harold Pinter

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“Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.”
“To me, a performance is a military operation; it requires so much planning, and then ripping up the plan the minute you get there because you have no idea what the audience is feeling. I'm very much an entertainer, and sensitive to the audience's perception of me. I often have to do unexpected things, even for myself.”
“One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of Catholics who are practicing Yoga and meditation techniques borrowed from Buddhism and Hinduism. So there are these borrowings which I think fertilize the religions.”
“If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.”
“And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
“Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.”
“A beam in darkness: let it grow.”
“Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.”

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