"If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?"

-- Bertrand Russell

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“The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mothers advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations.”
“The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like. You can only live one life, and so you get to see other lives through these characters.”

Source : Source: www.hitfix.com
“Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.”
“For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.”
“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.”
“Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.”

Source : Millard Fillmore (1856). “Biography of M. F.”, p.157
“Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross”

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