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“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.”
“I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn’t have the other $20,000.”
“I admire Modi’s leadership and his ideology.”
“I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.”
“He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience.”
“We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.”
“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
“Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.”
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
“His huff arrived and he departed in it.”
“In England, the referee doesn’t blow his whistle.”
“The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.”
“One has to get rid of his inhibitions, being an actor.”
“A man’s measure is his will.”
“No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.”
“Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.”
“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.”
“Alien – an American sovereign in his probationary state.”
“There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies’s ‘The Deptford Trilogy’ and Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials.’”
“My dad gave me one of his kidneys.”
“And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.”
“Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.”
“Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.”
“Joey Porter is not one of the people I have respect for. His unprofessionalism is ridiculous.”
“The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states – as in his conversation with Vasetta.”
“His foe was folly and his weapon wit.”
“With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.”
“President Clinton, I sang at his post-inauguration party out in Maryland.”
“Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.”
“Everybody is entitled to his own opinion.”
“Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.”
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”
“I like Shakespeare. I like some of his work a lot.”
“To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.”
“An actor’s off-screen persona should never overshadow his on-screen characters.”
“Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.”
“Kim Jong-un’s style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.”
“Eminem isn’t the first entertainer to part ways with his conservative fans.”
“As long as it served his purpose, Mr. Lincoln boldly advocated the right of Secession.”
“The patron saint of outlining – the bespectacled siren who sings to me from his spotless rock – is P. G. Wodehouse.”
“I had a relationship with John Wooden. I spoke at his memorial service.”
“I do honour the very flea of his dog.”
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”
“Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.”
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.”
“Everybody needs to lower his ego.”
“I watch a lot of Kevin Nash’s matches. I use a lot of his stuff. I definitely use a lot of his mannerisms.”
“Bam Bam Bigelow was an amazing athlete for his size.”
“Kenny King, his character on TV is him.”
“Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.”
“Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.”
“George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That’s sort of his jam. I had no idea.”
“Even Superman’s name reflects his creators’ biblical knowledge.”
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
“Raman Singh has lost his image.”
“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.”
“The Indian was a religious man from his mother’s womb.”
“Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.”
“His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.”
“The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.”
“God buries His workmen but carries on His work.”
“His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.”
“One of my biggest influences, of course, is David Simon and his work on ‘The Wire.’”
“The great artist is a slave to his ideals.”
“Peter Jackson’s instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.”
“Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.”
“Mayer Hawthorne’s old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it’s tempting to overrate his pipes.”
“First and foremost, the duty of a representative is to represent the interests of his constituents.”
“The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.”
“Jeremy Scott is a good friend, and we love his stuff.”
“I love Karl Lagerfield. Riccardo Tisci – I love his work.”
“My husband is a musician, and ‘Paste’ is one of his favorite places to be interviewed by.”
“The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.”
“Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.”
“I’d been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.”
“One-eyed Reuben ‘Rooster’ Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.”
“I honestly think that Donald Trump’s only adviser is his doorman.”
“I was similar to Trump well before I joined his campaign.”
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his ability.”
“The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.”
“My main memories of my father are of his illness.”
“Al Sharpton doesn’t even pay for his own suits.”
“’The Clone Wars’ was rooted in George Lucas and his characters.”
“When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that’s when he crossed his final threshold.”
“I remember on ‘JAG,’ Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.”
“Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.”
“The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.”
“Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable.”
“Chicharito is a really good player, and his finishing ability is as good as there is anywhere.”
“Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.”
“My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.”
“I thought of Gene Krupa’s drumming, his staccato drumming. I went and put ‘Misirlou’ to that rhythm.”
“Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.”
“We’d be in his office playing with trucks as a six-year-old while he’s negotiating deals with presidents of major companies.”
“Honestly, a lot of pop records have beatboxing. Timbaland beatboxes on his tracks. Justin Timberlake beatboxes.”
“David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!”
“Knievel seemed braver and more brazen – and more unhinged – than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.”
“Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.”
“A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.”
“A pitcher is only as good as his legs.”
“What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?”
“Every player has his goals.”
“Every player has his way of playing.”
“Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.”
“No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.”
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
“Expanding a failing, big-government program that reduces flexibility for the states and traps generations of Americans in dependency is not consistent with the kind of conservative solutions that Reagan sought during his terms as governor of California and president of the United States.”
“His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.”
“President Obama’s greatest failure is his failure regarding foreign policy and national security.”
“I don’t let guys do hickeys. That’s like a dog marking his territory or something.”
“The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.”
“Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.”
“In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal – but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.”
“With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines.”
“’Certifiably Jonathan’ contrives crises for its subject – a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.”
“Everybody makes his path differently.”
“Elvis stole his sideburns from me.”
“Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.”
“No one is happy all his life long.”
“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”
“Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.”
“A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they’re loaded or not.”
“Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
“I like A$AP Rocky and his stuff – Kendrick too.”
“The will of man is his happiness.”
“Steven Gerrard – at his peak, he was outstanding both attacking and defensively.”
“Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.”
“The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.”
“He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.”
“I’m not the candidate who puts his kids in private schools.”
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
“Is Abundant Success in all his honest undertakings.”
“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
“No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.”
“His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.”
“There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.”
“ObamaCare was a lemon, but the media were his lemonheads.”
“Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.”
“Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.”
“Each is responsible for his own actions.”
“Reagan conspired in the underestimation of his own ability.”
“A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.”
“There ain’t a man livin’ who hasn’t talked to his dog.”
“I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.”
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”
“No man can become a saint in his sleep.”
“A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.”
“Jon Chu is an absolute genius with his story-weaving.”
“A man’s character is his fate.”
“A man’s character is his guardian divinity.”
“The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.”
“I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.”
“Liberalism, above all, means emancipation – emancipation from one’s fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.”
“What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.”
“A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.”
“When I heard Elvis and his ‘Sun Sessions,’ I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.”
“By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.”
“Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.”
“I don’t think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.”
“I’ve raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.”
“President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and ‘The Fountainhead’ his favorite novel.”
“Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.”
“Man must be associated with his fellows.”
“A man is accountable to no person for his doings.”
“Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.”
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
“The public Yao was the private Yao: To his core, there was an unmistakable peace to him.”
“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”
“Members of the press have been so savaged by Trump and his propagandists in the media that journalists seem almost foreign or anti-American to his supporters.”
“As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own.”
“There’s something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.”
“The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.”
“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”
“Love’s tongue is in his eyes.”
“A nerd will be a nerd all his life.”
“God is sufficient in all ages for His church.”
“An artist is his own fault.”
“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”
“Magic is the man. No one is in his class.”
“President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.”
“Muhammad Ali was such an original – his antics, his character, his charisma, his strength, his individuality.”
“The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.”
“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
“It ain’t often that a man’s reputation outlasts his money.”
“Trump is an erratic figure – seemingly fragile, consumed by his own unpopularity and desperate to somehow exceed Barack Obama in public acclaim.”
“Trump is reviled around the world, as is the U.S. under his leadership.”
“Solomon’s temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.”
“A coach must be at one with his players.”
“A. R. Rahman is truly India’s Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.”
“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”
“Importantly, Rajini sir doesn’t take his fans and audiences for granted.”
“I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.”
“I love all of his movies. I love all his movies. I love Tom.”
“Amplify, clarify, and punctuate, and let the viewer draw his or her own conclusion.”
“It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.”
“Kenneth Branagh has his stamp all over ‘Thor.’”
“Yes, there is another brother. His name is Frankie.”
“William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.”
“Have I met Justin Timberlake? I have! I’ve been to his house.”
“A fool is wise in his eyes.”
“Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.”
“Man is remembered by his deeds.”
“My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I’m writing to his beats.”
“He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.”
“Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.”
“An actors’ tribute to me is in his work.”
“I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.”
“His nerve, his memory, and I can’t remember the third thing.”
“It doesn’t necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.”
“The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.”
“Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.”
“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
“I’m not a keeper who hasn’t shown his ability.”
“No single player can stop Antoine Griezmann on his own.”
“Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.”
“But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn’t do his job.”
“Speech happens to not be his language.”
“A man’s kiss is his signature.”
“Each one prays to God according to his own light.”
“Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.”
“The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.”
“To measure the man, measure his heart.”
“Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ was inspired by Cinthio’s ‘A Moorish Captain’; his ‘Hamlet’ came from Saxo Grammaticus’s ‘Amleth.’”
“I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.”
“I had a career. His name was Ike.”
“One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.”
“B.G. was just like his lyrics.”
“I like the beauty of Faulkner’s poetry. But I don’t like his themes, not at all.”
“I admire Cristiano’s ambition and his goal-scoring touch.”
“His modesty amounts to deformity.”
“Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.”
“Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.”
“Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime.”
“John Kerry’s biography was central to his campaign.”
“And Robert Lowell, of course – in his poems, we’re not located in his actual life. We’re located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.”
“The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.”
“I wasn’t ever a massive David Essex fan, but I liked a few of his tracks, and Stardust was one of them.”
“The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.”
“A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.”
“He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.”
“Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.”
“The character of a man is known from his conversations.”
“Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.”
“I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.”
“I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure.”
“I admire Trump for his accomplishments.”
“My film about Bush didn’t prevent his reelection.”
“We are tired of Obama’s empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.”
“In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.”
“From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.”
“I was indeed very critical of Mr. Trump during his campaign.”
“A president is always cosseted by his staff.”
“Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.”
“My overall favourite player would be Iniesta. For his final ball, obviously, his skill, and his ability.”
“The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.”
“I respect Srikanth garu, I worked as an assistant director for his film ‘Radha Gopalam.’”
“Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.”
“And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.”
“Like Lindsay Lohan and Lauren Conrad, Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry.”
“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
“Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.”
“When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?”
“My grandfather went through a lot in his life.”
“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”
“As Donald says, I am his Valerie Jarrett.”
“A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
“Patrice Evra has always fought for his place.”
“Every Luke Skywalker needs his Darth Vader.”
“I used my body, and Roddy used a lot of his brains.”
“I would sue any president that exceeds his or her powers.”
“My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.”
“Contrary to what the Americans frequently reiterated, al-Qaeda did not have any relationship with Saddam Hussein or his regime.”
“It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.”
“I’m a wire-walker, but actually, I’m a moviemaker that hasn’t done his first movie.”
“Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.”
“His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.”
“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”
“I like Arijit Singh and often listen to his tracks.”
“We didn’t have any problem with 2Pac. We liked his music.”
“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”
“The filmmaker’s got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.”
“Lil Wayne is doing his thing, and so is Drake.”
“Three cheers for the artistry of the lone designer doing his thing!”
“When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.”
“Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.”
“No. No, no, no, no, Blyleven wasn’t even the dominant pitcher of his era – it was Jack Morris.”
“Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.”
“We’re all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.”
“Death’s a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.”
“Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.”
“In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship – that era’s predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.”
“Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.”
“The labourer’s muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.”
“TV is where a writer can write his novel.”
“Everyone carries around his own monsters.”
“Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.”
“Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.”
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”
“His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.”
“Each man in his way is a treasure.”
“’Neverwhere,’ by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.”
“O’Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.”
“My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‘have-not,’ but I knew that I wasn’t.”
“The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.”
“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
“Balotelli I have known since I gave him his debut at 17.”
“Bob Marley – yeah, I’ve always loved his stuff.”
“The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.”
“Obama will learn from his mistakes.”
“You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.”
“I really liked watching Thierry Henry and Zidane, especially Henry in his Arsenal days.”
“In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.”
“The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.”
“Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.”
“I love Paul Simon… his lyrics.”
“A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.”
“Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.”
“One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.”
“I listened to George Carlin when I was a kid and knew every word of his routines.”
“Man is a child of his environment.”
“It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.”
“Shostakovich’s final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.”
“I started producing for Pump – I produced his first songs. ‘Lil Pump,’ ‘Elementary,’ ‘Johnny Dang’ – all that I produced.”
“Anurag sir is very specific about his casting.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“Industrial technologies that allowed for increased mechanization in 19th-century armed forces also spurred Frederick Winslow Taylor to develop his ‘Scientific Management’ doctrine in Philadelphia steel mills.”
“Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.”
“Sultan Beyazid considered his father’s art collection decadent and ordered it sold at auction.”
“I don’t think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.”
“Nas is an artist who writes from his heart.”
“Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.”
“No man can given anybody his freedom.”
“Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.”
“Gore’s problem is that the issues are all on his side.”
“Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.”
“I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.”
“I liked Sartre’s views but not his writing.”
“Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.”
“Samuel Beckett’s estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.”
“A man is known by the company his mind keeps.”
“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
“I researched and wrote ‘Muhammad Ali: His Life And Times’ for two years.”
“A manager is an assistant to his men.”
“The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.”
“No player can rest on his laurels.”
“A man is as old as his arteries.”
“A fool and his money are soon parted.”
“I don’t care about Clinton’s haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.”
“Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.”
“Obama’s stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.”
“I know Jeff Bezos because I cater at his home.”
“My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.”
“James Joyce – an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.”
“Bowie’s ‘Hunky Dory’ influenced me. ‘Ziggy Stardust’ influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.”
“If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he’d be a god.”
“It was a privilege to meet Rev. Jackson, and I learned a tremendous amount from his insight.”
“My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.”
“Mr. Gingrich has a number of elements in his record that could be criticized accurately. But to suggest that he was somehow anti-Reagan or to suggest that Reagan was anti-Gingrich is preposterously untrue.”
“The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.”
“I don’t need David Haye and his antics to earn money.”
“My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.”
“A person is big if his work is big.”
“Linares is one of the best fighters in his weight class.”
“I’m hooked on Polanski’s films, his psychological thrillers. I love ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ I love ‘Repulsion.’”
“I went to UCLA, my dad’s alma mater, and that was his dream.”
“He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t.”
“In ‘The Pianist,’ Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.”
“There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.”
“None but himself can be his parallel.”
“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
“Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues, but I had all of ‘Gotterdammerung’ in my fingers.”
“The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.”
“My dog’s name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.”
“It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.”
“No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.”
“A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.”
“The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother – and the public.”
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.”
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
“But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?”
“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”
“The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.”
“It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.”
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
“I dote on his very absence.”
“A fool and his words are soon parted.”
“Failure has gone to his head.”
“A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.”
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
“The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.”
“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”
“Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.”
“My father’s songs don’t intimidate me; my father’s songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There’s no intimidation.”
