"I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself."
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"I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate."
"I'm for whatever gets you through the night"
"Before I speak, I have something important to say."
"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
"I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun."
"In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left."
"A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men. I have the strength of one small boy... with polio."
"Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college."
"I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier."
"Let's say you have $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isn't working and sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your family's future depends on it, other people's families depend on it. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the goddamned sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?"
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
"I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action."
"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
"Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist."
"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."
"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."
"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
"I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it against the witless bellowing of the barracks yard and the witty chatter of the yes-men. I want to hear the rustling of the organ, this deluge of ethereal notes. I need it against the shrill farce of marches."
"I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."