Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
ORSON WELLESOnly in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
More Orson Welles Quotes
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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