"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Ernst Lubitsch

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“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”
“Every limbo boy and girl, all around the limbo world. Gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo clock.”

Source : Song: Limbo Rock
“So do you want a turd sandwich or a turd sandwich with mustard. I'd go with the mustard, but still, it's a turd sandwich.”
“The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.”
“An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who was searching for and would surely find her.”
“If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.”
“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”
“If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.”

Source : TALCOTT PARSONS (1949). “THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL ACTION”

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