Orson Welles Quotes
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
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People have to evolve.
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When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
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I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.
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This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
