Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
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We're both on the rebound, or whatever that terminology is when you're in recovery from a divorce. We have that in common, both scratching our heads fighting being cynical. And it's hard. You need a lot of humor to fight cynicism, and this movie has it - both, actually. So it's great.
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Jerry We live in a cynical world. A cynical world. And we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You... complete me.
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything that it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
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No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
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He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
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We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
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Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
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Cynical realism—it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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I'm not cynical. Just experienced.
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