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"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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"There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea."
"Solving a problem is intelligence. Preventing a problem is wisdom."
"One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?"
"Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?"
"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
"Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,let him assume that you ain't smarter than him."
"I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb."
"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times."
"A truly intelligent person does not cling to any ideology."
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"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."
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