Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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Money has no moral opinions.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
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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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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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First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space.
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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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I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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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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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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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