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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate

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