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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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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
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It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
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To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
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Always thank your nurse. Sometimes they're the only one between you and a hearse.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.
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Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.
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I mourn the loss of the gigantic screen, but I guess you can't have everything.
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I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.
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The highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I'm not going to call a dog Dog. I suppose if she were a baby you'd cal her Person.
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But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
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Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.
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Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.
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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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