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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
Warren Beatty
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Warren Beatty
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: March 30
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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By that time this society is going to be completely different for one thing. Your own son or your own son's son is not going to have the needs for money that you feel you have now. The society itself will be less dependent on money and currency to get along.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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You'd rather have nothing than settle for less.
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I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.
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