Billy Wilder Quotes
My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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I have two friends named Matt. They're both scouts in the cavalry. They both served in the same section of Iraq. They both worked with the same Iraqi translator. And yet, if you talk to them, their stories couldn't be more different, because one was there in 2006. One was there in 2008.
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In Kazakhstan the favorite hobbies are disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.
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I'm not ashamed to say I fear something.
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I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.
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I grew up on Dilla, Timbaland, Pharrell, all these drums that are super pocketed, so all those influences come out on a song like 'Ungrateful Eyes,' with all the crazy drum swing.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
