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"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."

"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."

"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do."

"So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title."

"One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal."

"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."

"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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