There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.
It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.
No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life. . . I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. . . . Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.
Each Australian is a Ulysses.
It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
Our belief systems are the glasses through which we each view the world and anticipate what is likely to unfold. Our behavior is always loyal with our beliefs.
I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.