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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

Orson Welles

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 enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
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 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
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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
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
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst

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