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Fact Quotes


"Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law."


"There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago."


"The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me."


"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."


"I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!"


"In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted."


"In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid."


"If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right."


"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."


"Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece."


"As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then."


"Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on."
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"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning."


"In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read."


"I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one."


"Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided."


"The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink."


"He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."


"It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions."


"Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well."


"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."


"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event."
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"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways."


"Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others."
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