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"I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself."
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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
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"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
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"You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated by what is really a good idea, which is the idea that one can describe the natural world using mathematical equations."
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"The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content."
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"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."
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"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical."
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"I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing."
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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."
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"When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot."
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"Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words."
Change
"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad."
Film
"Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting."
War
"God makes stars. I just produce them."
God
"Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined."
Man
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job."
Truth
"That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."
Trouble
"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."
Opportunity
"The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead."
People
"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong."
May
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