"Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor."

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Source : "Fictional character: Hedley Lamarr". "Blazing Saddles", www.imdb.com. 1974.

Harvey Korman

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“You want the vote so badly that you think it worth while to become hysterical over it.' 'There is not much hysteria in the movement, only hysteria is the thing that strikes a hysterical press as most worthy of note.”

Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”
“Lucy: I don't understand men. Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.”

Source : Sabrina Jeffries (2018). “Don't Bargain with the Devil”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
“The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.”
“Even as a child, I just leaned towards the scary. I remember seeing Halloween, for the first time. I snuck into the theater and was sitting there with a group of friends in the front row, and I turned back to look at the audience. They were screaming and interacting with the screen and were interacting with Jamie Lee Curtis as she walked through that horrible night. I just thought, "I want to do that."”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.”

Source : "A White-Striped Trip: 'Get Behind Me Satan'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 09, 2005.
“That's a big nose," he croaked and instantly realized he shouldn't have said something so impolite. I must be light headed, e thought. But the face smiled. The teeth seemed inordinatley white against the dark beard and skin. The only one I have," he said.”
“NEVER GIVE UP No matter what is going on Never give up Develop the heart Too much energy in your country Is spent developing the mind Instead of the heart Be compassionate Not just to your friends But to everyone Be compassionate Work for peace In your heart and in the world Work for peace And I say again Never give up No matter what is going on around you Never give up”
“It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never grateful. ... The 'sacrifices' you made were not for them, they were for you.”

Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.37, Pickle Partners Publishing

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