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"I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last."
Life

"Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I."
Power

"If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I."
Success

"What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?"
Life

"As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am."
People

"My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much."
Parents

"When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice."
Pretty

"I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me."
Business

"I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else."
Want

"It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office."
Money
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
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Personal Development

"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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Personal Development

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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Personal Development

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development

"Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine."
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Personal Development

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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Personal Development

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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Personal Development

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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Personal Development

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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Personal Development
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