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" What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract. "

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" What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle. "

" Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials. "

" Every man's entitled to hope. "

" You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake. "

" When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence. "

" I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all. "

" The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.' "

" I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer. "

" That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly. "

" All I do is work and be with my family. "

" The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass. "

" When I was working on 'Deadwood', it was understood that the script was a work in progress, and when we got to set, everyone would kind of work on it together. "

" When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western. "

" My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge. "

" I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself. "

" It may be, for one reason or another, if I'm not able to work, that would be a cause for distress. But I'm still pitching. Thank God, I'm still in possession of my gift. And I have the love of my family. "

" Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience. "

" Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life. "

" It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't. "

" Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?' "

" Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought. "

" The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating. "

" I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business. "

" I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world. "

" What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy. "

" I have several different masks that I wear. "

" If you have a horse that can beat horses worth $20,000, typically you enter it in a $20,000 claiming race. Now there might be people who feel their horse is worth $20,000, and they say, 'I wouldn't mind seeing the horse get beat.' So they'll enter it for $40,000 so the horse looks like it's performed badly. "

" I'm no rose. I have been around a while, and you never know when something is going to be the last thing you do. "

" A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you. "