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Intellectual Quotes by Woody Allen

8 Intellectual quotes by Woody Allen

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Allen’s eight brief musings on the intellectual reveal his trademark humor mixed with a keen eye on human foibles. They’re perfect for a quick, chuckle‑laden reminder of the mind’s quirks.

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The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an…

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There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics…

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It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films…

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Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation…

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Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively… But it wasn’t just intellectual…

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One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not…

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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content…

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I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

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I enjoy the making of the film and it's something for me to do. If nobody ever comes to my films, if people don't…

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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

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A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone.

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Man cannot live by bread alone. Every once in awhile he needs a salad.

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All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that.

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There are two important things in the world, the first is sex. The other isn't all that important.

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You can't ride two horses with one behind.

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Is old age really so terrible? Not if you've brushed your teeth faithfully.

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