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All Quotes Collection

"If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance."
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"First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker."
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"Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen."
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"For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal."
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"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context."
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"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
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"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."
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"My relationship to gravity is permanently altered."
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"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
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"I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
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"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."
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"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
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"If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em."
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"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
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"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."
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"It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much."
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"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
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"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."
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"You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours."
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"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
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"I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave."
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"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?"
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"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
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"People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are."
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"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."
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"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican."
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