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- Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
- Unknown
- One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
- Chateaubriand
- How could I lose to such an idiot?
- Aaron Nimzovich, A shout from the chess grandmaster
- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)
- The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), Annie Hall
- Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.
- John Wayne (1907 - 1979), (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
- A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
- Michael Winner, British film director
- It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
- Martin Cruz Smith on being asked how he liked the movie version of his novel Gorky Park.
- I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
- Jean Kerr, quoted by Gerald Nachman, San Francisco Chronicle 1/2/83
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