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The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. ”
To think that we can understand everything is such stupidity because our senses are so limited. We are so limited that to feel that we can understand the creation scientifically is a little bit naive. It's very childish. ”
Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye. ”
The amounts of money in Silicon Valley are staggering. ”
I never thought of myself as a wealthy person. I've thought of myself as a person who has had a lot of luck. I don't have the same stress that other people have, but there are too many things I could have done differently if wealth was what I was after. If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A. ”
Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them. ”
I'm going to stop giving too much money to charity - the charity is going to become my family. I'm only half-kidding. ”
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ”
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ”
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ”