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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
"A 'normal person' is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being."
"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
"The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else."
"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."
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"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
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