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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Ideas Ignorance People
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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might Optimism Views
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money

You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

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You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.

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