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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Orson Welles

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

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