I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESI’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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