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“The responsibility of parents is to raise children who do not need parents”. –Bob Keeshan

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her”. –Sacha Guitry

“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die”. –Federico García Lorca

“The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence”. –Ingmar Bergman

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes”. –Marcel Duchamp

“If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it… It possesses you”. –Frank Sinatra

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are”. –Bertolt Brecht

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

“The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions — to destroy”. –Henrik Ibsen

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable”. –Christopher Reeve

“We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion”. –Michael Crichton

“The ideal American-type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality, there are few left”. –Orson Welles

“I don’t think its in the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed”. –Marlon Brando

“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it”. –Bruce Lee

“If the American family has seemed in danger of disintegration, I believe and hope it will survive, and I think America will return to old values”. –James Cagney

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners”. –Charlton Heston

“It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman”. –Frederico Fellini

“I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we’ve exercised throughout history”. –Norman Mailer

“If you’re playing a poker game, and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you”. –Paul Newman

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid”. –John Wayne

“I hate this fast-growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories, and deprive them of all joy in their efforts. The plan will lead to cheap men, and cheap products”. –Richard Wagner

“Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe”. –Frank Zappa

“Dictators free themselves, but enslave the people”. –Charlie Chaplin

“Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees”. –Boris Marshalov

“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest”. –Andy Warhol

“I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddammit, I’m a billionaire”. –Howard Hughes

“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes”. –Stanley Kubrick