"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."
-Charlie Chaplin
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"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.“
-Charlie Chaplin
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"I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born."
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"To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune."
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"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
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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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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
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"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Strong women only marry weak men."
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