“Why do you have to be the same as the others?… Most of them are stupid.”
Source: Winter of the World
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British novelist 1949Related quotes

Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Acceptance Speech (2013)
Context: Why is one of the most important words in any language. You have to know why the world is the way it is or you have to want to know. If you do not have this curiosity and if you do not have the intelligence in order to be able to express this curiosity in terms that others can understand than we will not be able to contribute to progress in our world. How many of our people over these past few decades ever ask themselves why that had to submit to the authority of people who did not have the mandate of the general public. I do not think very many did. It was taken for granted that those who had power and authority could do exactly as they please. This was something that we could not accept.

“Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.”
Salon Magazine (29 August 2001)

On Sunnis and Shia, as quoted in CNN http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/09/lott-bush-barely-mentioned-iraq-in.html (2006).
2000s

“The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.”
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 42