A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.
ABRAHAM POLONSKYI want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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If you don’t get killed, it’s a lucky day for anybody.
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Today in Germany, everyone is being watched–even the watchers.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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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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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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What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.
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Indians don’t last in prison. They weren’t born for it like the whites.
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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
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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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D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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Do you know what it’s like to love and be alone?
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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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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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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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