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"A sage's mind is greater than a warrior's sword."

"It's ridiculous to repeat costly mistakes because you believe there is always a next chance. Mistakes may flow, but you have all it takes to close the canals they used!"

"The Holy Bible is the greatest book."

"When you live by understanding, you will escape destructions."

"It doesn't work, she continues, unclasping her hands, smoothing her skirt. "What you're feeling right now doesn't work. You can't wander around and think the wandering will call them back. Believe me. I know you don't want to hear the long view, but let me tell you. You are so young. I know it's none of my business. But still."

"When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations."

"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."

"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."
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"I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing."

"I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about."

"I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal."

"I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way."

"I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself."

"I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater."

"This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really."

"They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery."

"My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad."

"I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it."
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