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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Orson Welles

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
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
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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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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
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

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