"The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses."

-- Maxim Gorky

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“Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: 'You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer.' Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, 'It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.'”

Source : "A Night at the Met". Studio album by Robin Williams, August 9, 1986.
“I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better. The gift...it is perfect. So when I rise up on my tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn't seem forced at all.”
“Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.”

Source : "Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history" by Dinesh D'Souza, www.csmonitor.com. November 21, 2006.
“I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.”
“The best way to impress a woman is to be the most honest you can.”
“When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once sheâ€™s Ava Gardner. Itâ€™s the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. Iâ€™m never Grace Kelly, Iâ€™m always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.”
“I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.”

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