What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!
More Abraham Polonsky Quotes
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I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!
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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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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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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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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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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.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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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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Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?
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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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