Orson Welles: Quote for November 30, 2007

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

-- Orson Welles

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Norman Bates: Quote for November 29, 2007

A boy's best friend is his mother.

from: Psycho (1960)

-- Norman Bates

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Joan Baez: Quote for November 28, 2007

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

-- Joan Baez

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Lex Luthor: Quote for November 27, 2007

You see, whoever controls technology, controls the world.

from: Superman Returns (2006)

-- Lex Luthor

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Alfred Hitchcock: Quote for November 26, 2007

There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

-- Alfred Hitchcock

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Senator Paiste: Quote for November 25, 2007

This is America. Virtue always prevails.

from: Bob Roberts (1992)

-- Senator Brickley Paiste

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Helen Keller: Quote for November 24, 2007

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

-- Helen Keller

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Matthew Farrell: Quote for November 23, 2007

The news is completely manipulative. Everything you hear, every single day, is designed by corporate media to do one thing, and one thing only: To keep you living in fear.

from: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

-- Matthew Farrell

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Chief Red Cloud: Quote for Thanksgiving November 22, 2007

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

-- Chief Red Cloud

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Nefer: Quote for November 21, 2007

The greatest gift any man can bring to a woman is his innocence, which he can give only once.

from: The Egyptian (1954)

-- Nefer

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Mr. Whipple: Quote for November 20, 2007

Please don't squeeze the Charmin!

-- Mr. Whipple

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Mendez: Quote for November 19, 2007

Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.

from: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

-- Mendez

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Lord Byron: Quote for November 18, 2007

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

-- Lord Byron

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