Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.
ABBIE HOFFMANI believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
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It’s too late. We can’t win, they’ve gotten too powerful.
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Fantasy is the only truth.
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che’s picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you’re selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!
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I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain’t going.
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There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I’ve learned that lesson twice now.
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It’s going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People’s Park, all rolled into one.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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It’s embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller’s List.
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What if when they called a war, no one went?
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