Orson Welles Quotes
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Today in Saudi, women are either at the mercy of their husbands or at the mercy of judges who tend to side with the husbands. The only circumstance that a woman can ask for a divorce or a 'khali' is when her husband is in total agreement with her or if she comes from a very powerful family who decide to back her up.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.
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I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
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I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
