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• I'm not a vegetarian but I want you to know that my four dogs are safe.

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  Dog, Four, Safe

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• A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials.

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  Gun, Law, Rights

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• The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

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  Lonely, People, Internet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men

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  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in
  the end.

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  Fall, Play, Events

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• Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody — except bad people.

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  Gun, Men, Hands

  "Meet the Press" Interview, May 18, 1997.

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• As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.

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  War, Gun, Issues

  Winning the Cultural War, delivered 16 February 1999, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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• I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.

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  Fear, Believe, Heart

  "Truth And Consequences". Speech to the Yale University Political Union, www.varmintal.com. April 16, 1999.

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• I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.

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  Men, Two, President

  "Philip French's screen legends" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.

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  Fear, Mean, Men

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• Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

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  Dirty, Naughty, Guy

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• A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

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  Jobs, Police, Easy

  "Fictional character: Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas". "Touch of Evil", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

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  Summer, Art, Thinking

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

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  Thinking, Population, World

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1987.

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• I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

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  People, Four, Efficiency

  Source: reason.com

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• I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

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  Fit, Century, 20th Century

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• We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

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  Generations, Followers, Doorways

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• An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

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  Kindness, Inspiration, Epic

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• A war put off is not a war avoided.

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  Military, War, Avoided

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• I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

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  Thinking, Alcohol, Our Society

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• To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

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  Luck, Energy, Needs

  "Charlton Heston: Great sport with a line in heroic role models". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, June 17, 1990.

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• I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.

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  Thinking, Acting, Hollywood

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• Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

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  Directors, Captains

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• I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

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  Second Amendment, President, Safe

  "Gun lobby targets Gore, Democrats". www.cnn.com. May 23, 2000.

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• Lenin in 1921 observed very presciently that motion pictures were the most powerful tool ever invented to shape the way we thought. He was right. Political films can be successful.

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  Powerful, Successful, Political

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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