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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

Accepted Alive Being Chance
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I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

Actor Bunch Despise Entails
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I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

American Born Die I Was Born
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Day Did Fun Life
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Airline Create Else Experience
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Certainly Dyslexic Failed Grasp
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Walking Adult Come Fact
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Creatures Dark Eyes Found
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
Admitted Gave God
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Another Desire Experience Explanation
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

All My Life Going Life Make
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

Anything Attitude Could Doing
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Away Gave Had Half
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Clearly Confused Credulous Dangers
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

It Is What It Is Marriages More Regret
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

Around Broke Fast Get
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

About Candidates CNN Come
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Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

Growing Journalist Know Want
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What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

Disguise Grapes Hidden Human
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

Back Best Buying Cable
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If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

Business Crisis Everybody Had
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Back Bar Bunch Dice
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Day Others Self Wasted
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I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Anime Before Comics Even
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

About Artist Automatically Because
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I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

Around Burnt Child Disappeared
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Authority Bold Every Fearing
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I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Before End Financial Financial Resources
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Case Citizen Every Free
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There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn't feel it was safe enough for myself.

Ask Enough Feel Flight
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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Age Allowing Businesses Creatively
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I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Against Christ Glorify Innovation
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Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind - the product wasn't distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Businesses Businessman Coca-Cola Distinct
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Around Backs Demands Elected
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The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Activity Basically Behalf Consumers
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

Boy Dad Father He
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Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

Beautiful Happier Instincts Intention
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If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

Any Car Discipline Interested
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From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.

Approach Bring Clear First
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I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

Because Fascinated Impress Jeans
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All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
Admire Friendship Happy People
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I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

Born Definitely Evil Naked
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.

Allowed Connecting Everyone Instead
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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Act Because Born Day
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I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you.

People Religious Respectful Suits
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If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Accurate Around Biography Mind
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