"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons."
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"I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic."
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"As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical."
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"What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic."
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"Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business."
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"Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool."
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"With television, the image has been degenerated, no question. With the internet, commercials... people are much too cynical about image. It's stale. And all over the world, not just America."
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"One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person."
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"I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference."
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"To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards."
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"My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith."
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"I felt wise and cynical as all hell."
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"I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel."
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"I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
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"Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between."
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"On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis."
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"Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined."
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"You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'"
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"This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy."
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"Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference."
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