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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"The higher the voice the smaller the intellect."
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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
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"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
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"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
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"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."
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"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
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"Our big mistake in modern intellectualism is first and foremost its lack of nuance. We have made science synonymous with atheism - a presupposed conception and yet, another means to non sequiturs - and therefore, to a number of enthusiasts determined to go the further, anti-theism. Hereby let us observe that science has long served best and should be, if none other, the one discipline, if at all possible, free of potential ideology, pro-religious or anti-religious, and/or biased presupposition in order to maintain the true authenticity and the full reliability of its nature."
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"Never assume you know it all. Ask questions."
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"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."
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"No one was born a reader we learn to build the habit of reading."
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"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."
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"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."
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"You have to think with the heart."
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"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."
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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
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"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
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"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
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"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do."
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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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