When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
ORSON WELLESWhen people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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