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"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."
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"Violence is the first refuge of the violent."
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"The way I'd put it, said Makin, 'is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace."
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"Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people."
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"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"
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"The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."
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"Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution."
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"May be the power lies in the hands of the one who holds the gun... so he just presses the trigger whenever the slightest streak of anger passes his mind... and after a few haunting days he roams freely in the country without fear .. and what about the one who faces the wrath and bears the bullets? He leaves a movement behind... but haven't such movements always been ephemeral? Is death the price you need to pay to open the eyes of those who care but just for a couple of days?"
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"When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act."
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"There was nothing - and nothing - and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis's head was gone."
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"Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night."
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"I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste."
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"Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing."
Love
"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."
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"So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life."
Life
"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it."
Business
"Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody."
Today
"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."
Violence
"Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him."
Humor
"I have four children and I have seven grandkids."
Children
"Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good."
Time
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