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- I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up…
- I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
- I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
- The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even…
- I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
- I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back…
- There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle