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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.

Orson Welles

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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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
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
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
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
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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

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