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-- Jean Helion

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“To some people everything is permitted.”
“The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy." The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. "I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.”
“Iâ€™ve been around many girls who have been super outgoing. And a lot of times, they would say to me, â€œWhy are you so quiet? Whatâ€™s wrong with you?â€ And Iâ€™m like, â€œI donâ€™t know. Thatâ€™s just the way I am.â€ So if I found the perfect girl she would totally get that and say, â€œYouâ€™re quiet, and thatâ€™s the way I love you.”
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.”
“The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself.”
“Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.”
“In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.”

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