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" I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time. "

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" The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. "

Clint Eastwood

You

Tolerance

Talk

" I do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world. "

" Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view. "

" A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama. "

" I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff. "

Clint Eastwood

Great

Life

" I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man. "

" In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey. "

" Every story has its demands. "

" The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive. "

" At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel. "

" My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble. "

" I was drafted during the Korean War. "

" I am certainly not politically affiliated with Mr. Obama. "

Clint Eastwood

Politically

Obama

" I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him. "

" You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. "

" If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures. "

" I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them. "

" I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I'm not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy. "

" I'm just a kid - I've got a lot of stuff to do yet. "

" A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness. "

Clint Eastwood

Political

People

Political Correctness

" The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate. "

" I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet. "

" My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level. "

" The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men. "

" You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. "

" Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off. "

" Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. "

" What you put into life is what you get out of it. "

" They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. "

" I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it. "