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"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."
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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."
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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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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"
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"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."
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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."
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"No holidays, no country."
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"I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country."
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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
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"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
"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
Nation
"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
Freedom
"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
"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot."
Society
"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me."
Harm
"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
"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
Sense
"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."
Old
"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."
Art
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