I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. . . Egotism and laziness. And … - Orson Welles

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Orson Welles

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. . . Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

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In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

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My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

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BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

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Lucy Christopher

Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land. " "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you. " You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Make a career of humanity. . . It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. . . You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

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Washington Irving

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

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Margaret Sanger

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

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