Charlie Chaplin Quotes
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More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
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I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
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I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
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We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.
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Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
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Greed has poisoned men's souls.
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
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We might as well die as to go on living like this.
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In the end, everything is a gag.
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I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.
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Why should poetry have to make sense?
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
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Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film.
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Imagination means nothing without doing.
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Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
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During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.
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We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
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The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.
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To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
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The heart and the mind, what an enigma.
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Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.
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That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
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Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.
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So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!
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Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.
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My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
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Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
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Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.
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More than machinery, we need humanity.
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