"I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it."

-- Herman Wouk

#Inheritance Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Jerk Quotes

“I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.”
“If you look at the rest of my stuff, I always play characters that kind of don't look like me, 'cause I love transforming into someone else. I love being able to act, work and act, and then doing it under the radar.”
“When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.”
“Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.”
“The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).”
“Kiss and make up-but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.”
“My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want.”
“This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.”

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