A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.
But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.
All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.
Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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