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Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
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London
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Charles Spencer Chaplin
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Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
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3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8.
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I will not join any club who will take me as a member.
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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
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The building is a special place because of its architecture But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
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Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.
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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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I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror
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The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
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Greed has poisoned men's souls.
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The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
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In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs
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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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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
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From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.
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Let us fight to free the world!
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Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice
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Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
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Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.
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Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.
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