Mario Puzo Quotes
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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I would say 'American Werewolf in London' is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.
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I think it's great that you folks down here at WSAV are putting together this kind of telethon. It's representative of what I've seen people doing all over the Low Country around here.
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I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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Listen I'm the baddest in the school, the baddest in the game Excuse me honey but nobody's in my lane
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My favorite place to shop is: any Duane Reade.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
