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We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not like a road to follow, it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while.

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.

What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the right of trial by jury in civil cases an important bulwark against tyranny and corruption, a safeguard too precious to be left to the whim of the sovereign, or, it might be added, to that of the judiciary.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

All art critics are useless or harmful.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!

Truthfully I don't remember much about anything after the Olympics 'cause I, I lost everything.

The same ten minutes that magazines urge me to use for sit-ups and triceps dips, I used for sobbing.

Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.

Never use two words when one will do.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confidentiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.