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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels - we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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