Citizen Quotes
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Andy Gibbs
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy
Charles de Montesquieu
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The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Jeff Cooper
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The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Jeff Cooper
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle
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New York`s such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I`d like a card." He says, "You have to prove you`re a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.
Emo Philips
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein
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The law-abiding citizen is entitled to own a rifle, pistol, or shotgun. The right, put simply, shall not be infringed. (1998)
Charlton Heston
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Directing is the provenance of younger guys. When I broke into film, I had no specific genius. I was just young. That`s how I did it. The studios feel that movies are all about a youth movement, and they always have. That`s why Orson Welles got to make Ci...
William Friedkin
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[On Citizen Kane (1941) being colorized] "Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movie."
Orson Welles
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People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don`t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still...
J.K. Rowling
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[on the critical plaudits earned by The Last Picture Show (1971)] I`m very gratified by the reception. It`s gone beyond my wildest dreams. To have your picture compared to Citizen Kane (1941) is incredible; certainly it isn`t true, but it`s nice to have i...
Peter Bogdanovich
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl (1983), he said, `I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can`t. It`s the best film I`ve seen since Citizen Kane (1941)`.
Barbra Streisand
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One looks at films differently when one is a director or a critic. For example, though I have always loved Citizen Kane (1941), I loved it in different ways at different stages of my career. When I saw it as a critic, I particularly admired the way the st...
Francois Truffaut
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You can`t stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors` Guild card.
Paul Newman
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I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don`t have borders.
Eva Green
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[on Orson Welles] For me he`s just a hoax. It`s empty. It`s not interesting. It`s dead. Citizen Kane (1941), which I have a copy of, is all the critics` darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it`s a total bore. Above all, the performa...
Ingmar Bergman
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People seem to just forget that celebrities have the rights to any other citizen.
Corey Feldman
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[On becoming a U.S. citizen in 2000] America has been very generous to me, magnanimous really. I thought it would be good to give something back. It was a decision of the heart.
Anthony Hopkins
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When I first saw Citizen Kane (1941), I was certain that never in my life had I loved a person the way I loved that film.
Francois Truffaut
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You`re a sovereign as a citizen. If you`re not involved in your government, you`re not doing your job. In the long run that`s very bad for the Republic.
Michael Novak
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You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don`t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.
Andre Woodson
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You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can`t take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.
Roger Ebert
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Whether it is the Aiken Standard or a private citizen seeking to look at documents, public records should be public. We don`t believe the clerk has the right or duty to decide what is public.
Barbara Bosser
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When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
Amir Orad
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We`re quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
Anand Mohan
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We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada`s greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.
Kim Campbell
