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"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."
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"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."
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"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
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"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
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"One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world."
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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
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"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."
Encouragement
"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."
Film
"Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job."
Time
"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."
Old
"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love."
Love
"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."
Heart
"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot."
Society
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
Nation
"If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed."
Thought
"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
Music
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