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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.

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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself

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