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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.

Orson Welles

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
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
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
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention

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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