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The main motive for 'nonattachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
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The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.
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The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.
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The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
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The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
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The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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