Alfred Kahn Quotes
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
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I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
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I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
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How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?
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Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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I actually think that's true, that we kind of create our own hell.
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There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.
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I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.
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Pan Am can go to hell.
