"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."

-- John Adams

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“My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?”
“I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.”
“There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called â€œmidlife crisisâ€ exists.”
“I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.”
“A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.”
“I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.”
“Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'”

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