All Orson Welles Quotes
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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