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"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there."
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"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
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"Never let your education interfere with your learning."
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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that."
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"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
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"It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat."
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"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
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"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."
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"Even the most perfect advice cannot be as useful as a staircase or a rope for those who live in the dark wells!"
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"Advising gives a great illusion of superiority."
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"You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie."
Thought
"I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off."
Love
"I don't know if I'd want to do that anymore, because you always get bigger laughs on college campuses. So, when the film plays in front of a city audience, you've probably cut too loosely."
College
"It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones."
Positive
"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"
Movies
"I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire."
Humor
"I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit."
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"Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials."
Business
"There would always be a vote. There were always conflicts and arguments for years and years - that's why we're not together anymore. But there was always a vote. It was always two out of three."
Movies
"We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important."
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