Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
William Hurt
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- But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
- The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
- Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
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