"In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices."

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Jean Rostand

“I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.”
“I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.”
“It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.”

Source : 2000 The Devil's Advocate.
“My point is pot is no more and probably less harmful than alcohol is. I don't understand the stigma of not legalizing marijuana. And I don't even smoke it. I don't understand why. I don't get it.”

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“The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.”
“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.”
“I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.”
“A wealthy and wise man doesn't shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand.”

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