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Stanley Kubrick has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it…
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I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million…
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Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to…
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the…
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The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
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If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least…
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I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful…
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…
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I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do…
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The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say…
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I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in…
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on…
— Aristotle
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way…
— Aristotle
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American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.
— Dave Barry
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and…
— Mel Brooks
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I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.
— Sandra Bullock
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of…
— Lewis Carroll
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
— Rudyard Kipling
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and…
— George Eliot
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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of…
— E. O. Wilson
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The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
— Walter Lippmann
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