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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

Stanley Kubrick

There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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Death Hair Science
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
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
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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Practice Punishment Violence
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Heart Learning Moving

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