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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.

Orson Welles

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
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
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation

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