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" I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. "

Clint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood

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" 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. "

" It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. "

" I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too. "

" I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that's OK, too. It's whatever suits you. "

" My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. "

" In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess. "

" In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am. "

" Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. "

Clint Eastwood

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" You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you. "

" I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. "

" There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it. "

" I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection. "

Clint Eastwood

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" I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject. "

Clint Eastwood

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" If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something. "

" Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. "

" It's always fun to talk about jazz. "

" On 'Mystic River,' I had to cut my salary and everyone else's to get it made. "

" When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again. "

" The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated. "

" I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal. "