“All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?”
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“After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.”
“When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.”
“The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.”
“You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.”
“It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be for having those effing adverts on TV for all this crap that's made by poor people in poor countries that we sell our children who have too much?”
“I have a lot of people to thank but they're none of them here so I'm not going to bother.”
“We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.”
“Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?.”
“I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.”
“What you might call the "symbol pushers" - that is to say, all of the people who deal with figures, with paper, with men, who manipulate - to use a better or nicer word - manipulate men and signs and words. All those today have not only to sell their service, but in the bargain, they have to sell their personality, more or less. There are exceptions.”
“I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.”
“What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion.”
“Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.”
“We are confronted with the possibility of a war of such destruction that the whole existence of our nation and of the whole world is at stake. And yet, people know it - people read it in the newspapers, people read that at the first attack, a hundred million Americans might be killed. And yet, they talk about it as if they were talking about something being wrong with the carburetor of their car, perhaps.”
“If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.”
“You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood”
“What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.”
“I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.”
“People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.”