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I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an ... 
My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and c... 
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public ... 
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, ar... 
It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They bel... 
I have three very simple principles. I don't like conflicts of interest; they should be eliminat... 
As parents are usually working, they haven't time to teach children about cooking, and it's ... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe tha... 
If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old,... 
The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don... 
In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be sk... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people... 
I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in f... 
We are just adding a licensing component in the interest of public health. We want them to get licen... 
I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong ... 
I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing ... 
I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew u... 
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. 
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ... 
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. 
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. 
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. 
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to... 