Walter Riedel (Papa) Quotes
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
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Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
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Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
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It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
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I know Eddie would want the show to go on.
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
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Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.
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Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.
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Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
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Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.
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You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.
