"Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions"

-- David Hume

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“It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.
“The Golden Rule will always be good advice!”
“As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history”
“One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.”
“Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.”
“One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.”
“When you have teammates just as talented as you, it's kind of weird to get all the attention.”
“Isolationism is over.”

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