Robert Riskin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.
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To most of you, your neighbor is a stranger, a guy with a barkin' dog and a high fence around him. Now you can't be a stranger to any guy that's on your own team. So tear down the fence that separates you. Tear down the fence and you'll tear down a lot of hates and prejudices. Tear down all the fences in the country and you'll really have teamwork.
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How did you feel feeding doughnuts to a horse? Had a kick out of it, huh? Got a big laugh. Did you ever think of feeding doughnuts to a human being? No!
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Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday you build another fence around your minds.
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You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?
-- Robert Riskin
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They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.
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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible  its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but  the Enchantress of Numbers.
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In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.
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The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
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