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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

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
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
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
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
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
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck

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