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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Orson Welles

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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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Drive Fast Myself Scare
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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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
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
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
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
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

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