“Oh, for Christ’s sake,” I hear. “Can we please just try to have a good time?” This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn’t work. I’ve tried it.
“Oh, for Christ’s sake,” I hear. “Can we please just try to have a good time?” This is like ordering someone to find you attractive, and it doesn’t work. I’ve tried it.
“What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.”
― The Survivors Club
― The Survivors Club
“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism."
[Interview with Ron Powers (Chicago Sun Times) for Playboy, 1973]”
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[Interview with Ron Powers (Chicago Sun Times) for Playboy, 1973]”
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“I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.”
― Dead Beat
― Dead Beat
“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
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