"Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense."

-- George Friedman

#Self Quotes #Profound Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, 'How do you hold down government spending? The only effective way I think to hold it down, is to hold down the amount of income the government has. The way to do that is to cut taxes”
“Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action.”
“Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
“A life without music is an error.”
“You're either reading a book or you're not.”
“I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.”
“For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.”

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