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" What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. "
Charlie Chaplin
Desire
Life Is A
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" I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President. "
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Christ
" We think too much and feel too little. "
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" That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. "
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" Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. "
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Thing
Words
" We might as well die as to go on living like this. "
Charlie Chaplin
Well
Might
Living
" Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. "
Charlie Chaplin
Get
Rejection
Search
" I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. "
Charlie Chaplin
Conclusion
Career
Public
" I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. "
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Than
Crook
Successful
" 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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Live
Want
" All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. "
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Serious
Gentleman
Me
" I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. "
Charlie Chaplin
Life
Doing
Wrong
" A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. "
Charlie Chaplin
Man
True
Drunk
" To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! "
Charlie Chaplin
Play
Laugh
Pain
" The glamour of it all! New York! America! "
Charlie Chaplin
Glamour
New
New York
" Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. "
Charlie Chaplin
You
Alone
Wonderful
" I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man. "
Charlie Chaplin
Am
Conflict
Man
" Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. "
Charlie Chaplin
Permanent
World
Wicked
" In the end, everything is a gag. "
Charlie Chaplin
Everything
End
In The End
" Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. "
Charlie Chaplin
Relief
Laughter
Tonic
" Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. "
Charlie Chaplin
People
Themselves
Free
" To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune. "
Charlie Chaplin
Easy
Always
Help
" I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. "
Charlie Chaplin
Purpose
Someone
Patience
" Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. "
Charlie Chaplin
Life
Life Is A
Seen
" I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large. "
Charlie Chaplin
Pants
Thought
Small
" I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth. "
Charlie Chaplin
Business
Art
Truth
" The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. "
Charlie Chaplin
Hate
Long
Men
" The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. "
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Imagination
Imagine
I Can
" I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. "
Charlie Chaplin
Only
Places
Politician
" Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. "
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Courage
Make
Fool