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Quotes by Editor
"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity."
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"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
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"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."
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"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
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"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."
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"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter."
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"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
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"The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement."
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"To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!"
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"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
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"An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut."
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"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."
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"You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?"
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"Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide."
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"The most destructive criticism is indifference."
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"Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous."
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"Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October."
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"Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it."
Fact,
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"Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey."
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"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
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"Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying."
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"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
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"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."
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"The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win."
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"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
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"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."
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"Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement."
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"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."
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"All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs."
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"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."
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"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."
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"No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through."
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