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Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.


Eric Rohmer

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TAYLOR SWIFT The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending East...
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LANA PARRILLA With my little dinners I like to feel I am helping to save Western civilization.
GWEN CAFRITZ Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people...
ADAM LEVINE Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
LA'PORSHA RENAE The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
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LAYNE STALEY As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
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DOREEN CRONIN I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.
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MICHELLE MONAGHAN I haven't got an opportunity to experiment with the dimensions of my moustache much. But yes, if...
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JACK SCALIA It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies becaus...
STEVEN SPIELBERG It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
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RANDEEP HOODA The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural conc...
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ATHOL FUGARD If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.
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ERIC HOFFER Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
ERIC HOFFER There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERIC HOFFER The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
ERIC HOFFER Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
ERIC HOFFER We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
ERIC HOFFER SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH