For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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We had no idea of his motivations. And even now some of his motivations are unclear.
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Voltaire
I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
Sylvia Kristel
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Felix Frankfurter