"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

People, Hollywood, Writing

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

Art, Money, People, Advertising

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

Government, Money

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

Money, People, Earth, Giving

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."

Business, Movies

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."

War, Diplomacy

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

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"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."

People, Conscience, Lawyers

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

People, Present

"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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

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

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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

Mason Cooley, American Writer

People, Beliefs, May, Myths

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Goodness

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Nothing

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

Jane Austen, British Writer

People, Trouble, Want

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need."

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

"The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself."

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail."

"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

"People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide."

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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."