A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
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A pro-life advocate sees abortion as a sin against God who infuses life at the moment of conception. A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.
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Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?
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What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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What makes the engine go Desire, desire, desire.
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You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but the...
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Johnny Clay: You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart. So play it smart. Stay in character and you'...
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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.
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No more picking on Dim, brother. That's part of the new way.
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.
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There are some things, my dear Fisher, which do not bear much looking into. You undoubtedly have heard of the Siberian goat herder who tried t...
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Geroge Peatty: I'm gonna have it, Sherry. Hundreds of thousands, maybe a half million. Sherry Peatty: Of course you are, darling. Did you...
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The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me.
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You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
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The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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I keep seeing lousy films and saying to myself, 'I don't know anything about movie making, but I couldn't do any worse than this'.
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You like money. You got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart.
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The longer the title, the less important the job.
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When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else
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That team knows how to shoot the basketball. I've been doing this a long time and never saw a team shoot like that before, especially from the perimeter. They were phenomenal.
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It's a bad joke without a punchline.
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People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
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Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
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