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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Certainly Dollars Down Dumb
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

Alike Almost Almost Nothing Arc
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Any Away Best Business
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

About Anywhere Between Day
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Able Abstract Alone Being
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I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Admire Adore Because Gems
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Always Bad Book Disgrace
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I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

About Am Big Big Enough
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Does Government Problems Solve
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I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Try Not Think About
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Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Abuse America Everything Forget
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I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Better Horse Inside Man
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
Difficulty I Write Notes Singing
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We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Abroad Innocent Innocents Play
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People do not make wars; governments do.
Governments Make People Wars
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Different Everybody Everything Experiences
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What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

About Cause Dangerous Evil
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Gain Guide Live Living
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

All Our Lives Black Go God
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People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Am Calling Destroy Find
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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

Activity Arena Bodies Clearly
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

Good I Think Love Love Songs
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The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
Does Ends Free Life
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I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

Any Circumstances Foreseeable Friends
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

British Felt Identity Interested
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Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Ask Dream I Dream Men
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We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together.

Cannot Chaos Civilization Creates
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It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Accept Any Been Career
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I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.

Any Bad Bad Example Clean
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Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Change Gonna Me New
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I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

Around Expressing Just Move
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I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.

Correct Evening I Think Quite
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Just because you've been doing it before and longer than me does not mean you are better or not better than me.

Better Just Mean Longer
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I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else.

Becomes Date Else Everyone
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Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

Also Economic Freedom Liberty
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It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

About Also Cliche Fall
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My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Afraid Being Being Afraid I Think
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

Animals Being Children Feeling
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Accept Answer Ask Because
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

Because Different Does Just
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

Because Black Catholic Color
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

Because Down Edited Entertainment
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Feeling Good Opera People
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

Air BrPower Did Dr
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I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

Always Barriers Been Black
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It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
Liberation Men Women Freedom
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

Able About Anything Gender
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Any Chances Could Crazy
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So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Hope Today Tomorrow Writing
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