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Charlie Chaplin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 16
Died: 1977
Died: December 25
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Charles Spencer Chaplin
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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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More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
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The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all.
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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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Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.
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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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My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.
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As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection WISDOM OF THE HEART.
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I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
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Life salutes u when u make others happy
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Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
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Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
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Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.
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In this book I do not intend to give a blow-by-blow description of a sex bout: I find them inartistic, clinical and unpoetic. The circumstances that lead up to sex I find more interesting.
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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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Your Pain May Give Laugh To Somebody But Your Laugh Shouldn't Give Pain To Anybody
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I don't believe that the public knows what it wants this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
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One murder makes a villain millions, a hero.
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By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
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Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.
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