Another Ayerism, this one from wikipedia:

He taught or lectured several times in the United States, including serving as a visiting professor at Bard College in the fall of 1987. At a party that same year held by fashion designer Fernando Sanchez, Ayer, then 77, confronted Mike Tyson harassing Naomi Campbell and demanded that Tyson stop. Tyson said: "Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the heavyweight champion of the world," to which Ayer replied: "And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest that we talk about this like rational men."

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

I once sat in a small theatre on the Fox lot in LA, watching the first 40 minutes of the rough cut of "Bulworth" (40 mins was all that had been edited together). Afterwards, Warren Beatty came out and spoke to us, as he had been editing it in a booth behind us. He spoke rather slowly and deliberately, about subjects ranging from the film business to politics. I found him interesting but not particularly profound, but the people around me were starstruck. I think they mistook his slow speech for deep thought. I tried to tell people, "listen, the guy is like 55 years old now. Of course he's developed some opinions by now, otherwise he'd be a complete moron. Just talking slowly doesn't make you a genius."

Of course, I had to hold my more mischievous tendencies at bay. At one point, nobody had a question for him, and he reached out asked anybody to ask him anything. I had to literally hold my arm down from raising it and asking, "so Warren, how many has it been? More than Wilt?" referring of course to his other reputation in Hollywood.

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"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" - Benjamin Franklin
"Don't you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here." - Alvy Singer, "Annie Hall"

Seems to be a trait of his - I once read an interview with him in Rolling Stone where they published how many seconds it took for him to reply to the question. Most were well over a minute...

fast fast fast.

my mom will sometimes return a message to me and say, "i have no idea what you said on your message, i just know it was your voice. give me a call."

guilty of talking way too fast

on another note, the psychiatrist on the sopranos; god did the slowness of her speech annoy me.

fastwaytoofast

as a matter of fact, it's been noted on my performance reviews. Hell, I got a lot to do and a little time. Get on board and start listening.

MLT

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