"I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."

-- Smedley Butler

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“In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.”

Source : Harry Kemelman (2015). “Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry”, p.52, Open Road Media
“I would not leave you. I'll be there. Wherever you want 'there' to be.”
“I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration. There's great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.”
“There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.”
“Capitalismâ€™s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action,”
“Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Letâ€™s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action â€“ the stunts. If they take that away from you, itâ€™s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But Iâ€™m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.”
“Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.”

Source : Virginia Graham (1967). “Don't blame the mirror”

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