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'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
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I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
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I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.
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'The X Factor' seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it's not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can't imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on 'The X Factor.'
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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?
