Jack Nicholson

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• My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

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• You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.

  • Truth & Lies

• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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