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"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."

"General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves."

"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me."

"I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be."

"In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form."

"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."

"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
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"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."


"It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia."


"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."


"I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed."


"I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media."


"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."


"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom."


"American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information."


"I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost."
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