I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
ABRAHAM POLONSKYTwenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal.
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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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It’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.
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It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars–an excitingday in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.
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