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Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics.

Charlie Chaplin

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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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By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.
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In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs
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The glamour of it all! New York! America!
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Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
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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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I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.
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I like friends as I like music - when I am in the mood.
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
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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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