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"I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films."
"I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody."
"I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code."
"We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes"
"Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all."
"If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression."
"In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness."
"If God were not to test us, there would be no patience."
"If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work."
"Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world."
"A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic."
"Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered. "That would be awesome," Puck said. Sabrina flashed him an angry look. "Awesome in a terrible, heartbreakingly tragic way," Puck continued."
"Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . ."
"It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad."
"I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness."
"If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government."
"All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity."
"There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?"
"If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven."
"If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of."
