“When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.”
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“I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality of opportunity - my kids have had advantage over 99 percent of the kids in the country.”
“What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.”
“The world is satisfied with words, few care to dive beneath the surface.”
“All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.”
“It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.”
“One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.”
“I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.”
“As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.”
“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”
“And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.”
“Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.”
“The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.”
“If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.”
“I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?”
“Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse”
“I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that’s my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people.”
“I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.”
“The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.”
“Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.”