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Quotes by Screenwriter
"Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here."
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"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years."
50
"Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet."
50
"Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead."
48
"As soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards just a bum."
48
"The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want."
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"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"
46
"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."
45
"That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did."
45
"Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness."
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"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."
45
"One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life."
45
"Oh, I realize it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me: I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
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"There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him."
44
"A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face."
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"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair."
43
"A golf course is nothing but a pool room moved outdoors."
43
"Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions."
43
"We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing."
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"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
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"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors."
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"The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror."
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"What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing."
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"I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can."
40
"Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom."
40
"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."
40
"I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork."
40
"I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot."
40
"I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough."
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"You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow."
40
"If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"
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"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."
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"Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
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"After all, the wool of a black sheep is just as warm."
39
"One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge."
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"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
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"If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them."
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"Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit."
35
"Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man."
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"My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned."
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"Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive."
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"Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects."
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"An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy."
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"The weaker the country, the stronger the smile."
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