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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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
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Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.
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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?
