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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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