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“But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.”
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“By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?”
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“I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it's just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.”
Source : Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2006. 
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“I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.”
Source : "Water, Water" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. June 23, 2008.
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“To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.”
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“The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.”
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“I live near Amish communities in northern Indiana and I have the greatest respect for such faithful people. They attempt to live their faith more fully by separating themselves, as far as possible, from the wider culture and its influences. That has never been the teaching of the Catholic faith.”
Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
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“The more I accomplish the more I realize how empty my life is.”
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“Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.”
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“The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.”
