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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”
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“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway”
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained”
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