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"I think we're going to have to accept the fact the U.S. is off the world map. We are not a great player any longer. And when we come home - as we will have to do because we've run out of money - we will discover that Argentine debts means Argentine politics. And on that note, you can wake up in the middle of the night."
"The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world."
"Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it."
"Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until the last trump is called - or whatever it is they do."
"The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country."
"In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments."
"I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy."
"I think since Watergate people are interested in what the past of this country was really like."
"To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't."
"Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us."
"Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are."
"Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché."
"The whole point to American journalism is what ought to be true is true."
"I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice."
"The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police."
"Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief."
"I'm in favor of sexual encounters."
"There are two things you never turn down: sex and appearing on television."
"The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German."
"The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment."