“The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.”
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Regretful Quotes — page 142 of 169
“You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!”
“The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.”
“It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq.”
“But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.”
“...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
“In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.”
“It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.”
“If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them”
“there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.”
“I've killed enough of the world's trees.”
“no knowledge obtained without risk”
“When the time is gone, you can never get it back.”
“I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.”
“Kill if you will, but command me nothing!”
“The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.”
“I was always jealous of something getting more attention.”
“I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?”
“I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.”
“We're looking for something that sounds like a member of the Republican Party. The reality is, he's playing for the Democratic vote at this point ... but he has to give something to create energy among conservatives.”