Joe Orton Quotes
McLeavy: Where did I go wrong? His upbringing was faultless. Did you lead him astray?Dennis: I was innocent till I met him.Hal: You met me when you were three days old.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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I'm interested in what bonds people together. You know, what brings us together in good ways? And there's not a lot known about that.
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You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
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When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.
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My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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He suspected the troops felt closer to somebody who spoke a different language but asked them questions than they did to somebody who shared their language and only ever used it to give orders.
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That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.
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All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal. But since they want it that way, I enter gladly on the path that is opened to me, with the consolation that my departure will be more innocent than was the exodus of the early Hebrews from Egypt.
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McLeavy: Where did I go wrong? His upbringing was faultless. Did you lead him astray?Dennis: I was innocent till I met him.Hal: You met me when you were three days old.
