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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Orson Welles

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
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
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer

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