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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin
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Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
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In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them in Shakespeare ... I am not concerned with who wrote the works of Shakespeare ... but I can hardly think it was the Stratford boy. Whoever wrote them had an aristocratic attitude.
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Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
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My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
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Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice
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As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
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Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!
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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
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I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
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Greed has poisoned men's souls.
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My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
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The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.
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The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
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I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
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I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
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To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
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Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.
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I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.
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