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There are so many things I want to do. Like I want to get an artist a musician a photographer and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily I have a lot more time.

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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual...

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to...

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you...

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is...

Time stays we go.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought...

Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.

We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the...

Every man sees in his relatives and especially in his cousins a series of...

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for...

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and...

Poetry has done enough when it charms but prose must also convince.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger...

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which...

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I...

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world as pastors teach...

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

For it is mutual trust even more than mutual interest that holds human...

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving...

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later...

Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be...

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that...

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness but after that...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to...

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of...

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

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