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"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."

"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."

"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."

"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."
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"The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving."

"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people."

"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility."

"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."

"I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio."

"Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen."

"I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do."

"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."
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