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The words ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,'' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
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We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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When I wrote "Green, Green," it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, ''No Shit!'' or at least, ''No kidding!''
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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