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Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
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We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
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It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
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I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
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If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
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