A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYIt’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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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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Kids win this’n’that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand’s worth watchin’, one out of a million’s worth coffee and doughnuts.
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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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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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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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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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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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Money has no moral opinions.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people…And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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