Zeljko Ivanek Quotes
It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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Making music is fantastic.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Elliott Bisnow -
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
