"The way I judge myself is not on how many World Cups I can win in a row."
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"If we start talking about we and us, just think of how many things can actually take place and change in the world."
"In a black-and-white world, back in the '50s, were voices from another era. All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men's voices, but they weren't Everyman, it was them."
"If everyone else is doing something, I have little or no interest in it. If you're known as this guy who can do any kind of sound or voice or whatever, somebody will go, "Do you do Christopher Walken?" "No." "Well, why not?" "Because everybody else in the world does it." My carpenter does Christopher Walken."
"I didn't create Bugs Bunny. You know what I mean? I can't get mad because I'm the third-best Bugs Bunny in the world."
"Photography opens your eyes a little wider to the world around you."
"You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it."
"Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world."
"But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction."
"I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world."
"The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it."
"What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently."
"Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true."
"the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation"
"When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way."
"My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world."
"If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories."
"My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph."
"We must learn to see the world anew."
"Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle."