"A work of art should be like a well-planned crime."

-- Charles Baudelaire

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“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.”
“The ultimate goal of Bhakti is to get Krishna and we get it by taking shelter of the holy name.”
“If E.F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.”
“And I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we demand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.”
“A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.”
“How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.”
“To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.”

Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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