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All Quotes Collection
"I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East."
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"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself."
43
"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
33
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
30
"Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter."
61
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
33
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."
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"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
33
"Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are."
Will,
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"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
33
"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
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"The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine."
26
"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration."
26
"No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist."
40
"What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find."
70
"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself."
42
"Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
35
"It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere."
58
"If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable."
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"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory."
32
"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."
45
"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."
75
"I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse."
42
"Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe."
50
"If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors."
41
"I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction."
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"And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!"
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"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."
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"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
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