Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts. - Budd Schulberg

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Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.

Budd Schulberg

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

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I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

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I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

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Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

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Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

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Joseph Joubert

Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

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Sara Blakely

Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

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Frank Prochaska

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Greg Weisman

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

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Leon Jouhaux

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

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