"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules."

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Source : "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psycology Today Interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 01, 1996.

Harold Ramis

#Character Quotes #Winning Quotes #Play Quotes

“[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society ... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason ... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.”

Source : "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.
“They pick me [to be tested for steroids] every time. I don't know why. I don't know if it's because I'm a big guy, or what, but all I know is all they are going to find is a lot of rice and beans.”
“The colonial power tended to be France or Britain, and the Soviets were proclaimed as anti-imperialists. So, if you align yourself with the Soviets, it fits nicely with that kind of rhetorical division, but in reality it does not get you anywhere.”
“Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.”
“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
“I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.”
“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
“Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.”

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