Top 98 Quotes About Dung

#1. You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

Aravind Adiga

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#2. But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd?

Stephen Jay Gould

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#3. They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

Desiderius Erasmus

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#4. The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a divine drug. He enters into death yearly, and comes back rejoicing. He has seen the light lie down in the dung heap, and rise again in the corn.

Wendell Berry

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#5. I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it's just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.

Tamora Pierce

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#6. "To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Alexandra David-Neel

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#7. Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy.

Donald O'Donovan

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#8. Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#9. You worthless excuse for a dung dealer. (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

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#10. Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.

Nguyen Tan Dung

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#11. There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

Rex Tillerson

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#12. I'm not so old that I've lost my wits, you piece of fox dung! Tallstar snarled.

Erin Hunter

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#13. Love, he thought. That too is love. The old miracle. It not only casts a rainbow of dreams against the gray sky of facts - it also sheds romantic light upon a heap of dung - a miracle and a mad mockery. Suddenly he had the strange feeling of having become, in a remote way, an accomplice.

Erich Maria Remarque

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#14. If wishes were horses,
we'd be wading in horse dung!

Manoj Vaz

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#15. Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Heraclitus

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#16. You know your mother, Malfoy?" said Harry "That expression she's got, like she's got dung under her nose? Has she always looked like that, or was it just because you were with her?

J.K. Rowling

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#17. HE had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions a arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dung hill of war, the more the was resembled Amarant.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#18. A dung beetle couple in love constantly proves that you still can be in love living on shit.

Munia Khan

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#19. As accomplished as Aboujaoude?" "He was accomplished and humble. You, my son, are ambitious. And proud. And your feet smell strongly of dung, if I am being perfectly honest.

Jeff Wheeler

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#20. He felt like he was looking at a whole new world. Not only was he a new person, drowned in magic, but the thousands he faced were different. The disease hung on them like dried dung.

Ted Dekker

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#21. You put cow dung on my face?' 'Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?

Renita D'Silva

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#22. When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside the city.

Laozi

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#23. Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,
Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

Jonathan Swift

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#24. I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

David Gemmell

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#25. If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

Muhammad

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#26. Dung is more valuable than any precious metal. You cannot grow food in gold.

Michael Scott

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#27. The Lord of Casterly Rock made such an impressive figure that it was a shock when his destrier dropped a load of dung right at the base of the throne.

George R R Martin

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#28. Master Dung's study was silent. So silent, in fact, that one might have been able to hear a gnat passing air, if only an obligingly flatulent gnat had happened nearby.

Sorin Suciu

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#29. I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the resistance against the Americans. I went to the battlefield in order to regain national independence.

Nguyen Tan Dung

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#30. There is a very thin line between- Gobar(cow dung) and Go-Uber!!!!

Kshitij Bhatia

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#31. You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!

Anne McCaffrey

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#32. What we see of the world is the mind's
Invention and the mind
Though stained by it, becoming
Rivers, sun, mule-dung, flies-
Can instantly shift
A dirty bird in square time

Phillip Whalen

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#33. A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth
either epileptic or dead.

Jean Baudrillard

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#34. Haesten.
If this world ever contained one worthless, treacherous slime-coated piece of human dung then it was Haesten.

Bernard Cornwell

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#35. dung. Spot wouldn't even put his nose inside the

Books

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#36. But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

Taylor Caldwell

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#37. He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

Martin Luther

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#38. What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!

Eric Idle

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#39. I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it is dung. They wash off in the square and the well becomes polluted. All die. O the embarrassment.

Joe Haldeman

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#40. There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].

Nick Bostrom

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#41. He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all of his pacts with death and wallow like a hog in the dung heap of glory in order to discover the privileges of simplicity almost forty years late.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#42. Cole - For the fifth labour what better treat than to sling giant chunks of dung

Brodi Ashton

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#43. THEOLOGY IS THE study of God and his ways. For all we know, dung beetles may study man and his ways and call it humanology. If so, we would probably be more touched and amused than irritated. One hopes that God feels likewise.

Frederick Buechner

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#44. The first contraceptive was crocodile dung," she whispered. "The Egyptians used it in 2000 BC.

Jill Shalvis

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#45. It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble identifying the real problems they must deal with if they are to survive.

Edward Goldsmith

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#46. Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Saint Francis De Sales

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#47. Once or twice I saw evidence that rats had been nesting among the books, rearranging them to make snug two and three-level homes for themselves and smearing dung on the covers to form the rude characters of their speech.

Gene Wolfe

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#48. One speck of dung will spoil the pot. In order to keep my thoughts on a high level, I put a positive construction on things.

Kathleen Rowland

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#49. Leresy, you dung-sucking puddle of codpiece-juice!" She floundered in the water. "I'm going to shove these shards down your throat!

Daniel Arenson

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#50. The pun is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure depths.

Victor Hugo

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#51. Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church's coffers. It is in deed."
"I agree. That kind of love is porcelain-coated balls of dung.
But what of true affection? ...

Ted Dekker

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#52. C-3PO - Thou shalt not label me A mindless, brute philosopher! Nay, nay, Thou overladen glob of grease, thou imp, Thou rubbish bucket fit for scrap, thou blue And silver pile of bantha dung! Now, come, And get thee hence away lest someone sees.

Ian Doescher

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#53. A Gossip is a dung beetle in disguise ....

M. Jackson

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#54. Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

Jerry Saltz

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#55. The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.

Mark Twain

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#56. The septons were always going on about how the Father Above judges us all. If the Father would be so good as to topple over and crush Joff like a dung beetle, I might even believe it.

George R R Martin

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#57. In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

Stephen Fry

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#58. If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God's digestive system.

Blaise Cendrars

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#59. Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

Terry Goodkind

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#60. I was born under that star, the dung-beetle star.

Donald O'Donovan

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#61. Sleep, sleep, my love, my only, Deep, deep, in the dung and the dark; Be not afraid and be not lonely! This

E.B. White

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#62. The arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung.

Winston Churchill

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#63. I tried to stay in the clear parts of the road, avoiding horse dung. Perhaps going barefoot had not been the wisest choice.

Elizabeth Vaughan

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#64. If it's softer than the ground and has a roof over it, I call it a bed. Dolorous Edd sniffed the air. I smell dung.

George R R Martin

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#65. Is my andarion rusty or did he just call us the ass of a dung beetle

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#66. Causality was no longer the hidden demiurge that ruled the universe: down was up, the last was the first, the end was the beginning. Heraclitus had been resurrected from his dung heap, and what he had to show us was the simplest of truths: reality was a yo-yo, change was the only constant.

Paul Auster

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#67. Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint ... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.

Philip Guston

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#68. Grace will lift you from the dung hill to access the doors of Princes.

Abbey Adenigba

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#69. One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

Anton Chekhov

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#70. We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

Voltaire

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#71. There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the beauty of a world or of a dung heap; her destiny is never to be mediocre.

Josephin Peladan

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#72. Wealth Is Like Dung, Useful Only When Spread" - Chinese Proverb JIGGS

B.K. Froman

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#73. In this respect you, unworthy companion of my sad life, resemble the public, to whom one must never present the delicate scents that only exasperate them, but instead give them only dung, chosen with care.

Charles Baudelaire

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#74. There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

Charles Saatchi

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#75. When I was in the army, there were four times that I was wounded. I also got more than 30 wounds on my body, and my injuries were ranked on the second rank of invalids. The first rank is the most severe. So, that means that I had lost more than 60 per cent of working capability.

Nguyen Tan Dung

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#76. Foul, misbegotten mound of walking donkey dung!

Werner A. Lind

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#77. I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.

Graham Greene

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#78. is a pearl, and a pearl buried in a dung heap is no less valuable for its surroundings.

Christine Merrill

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#79. When God says hold up, wait, pray, it's not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own

Heather Choate Davis

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#80. Dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism ...

Mao Zedong

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#81. Like an inspired and prolific poet, who never refuses to spread beauty to the humblest places, which until now did not seem to share the domain of art, the sun still warmed the bountiful energy of the dung heap, of the unevenly paved yard, and of the pear tree worn down like an old serving maid.

Marcel Proust

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#82. Tiny drops of fresh dung littered the top of the boulders, reminding her of the old apprentice trick of telling kits they were tasty berries.

Erin Hunter

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#83. The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.

Robert A. Heinlein

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#84. In every great city, with all its gleaming walls and massive libraries, with all the shimmering fountains and sculptured gardens, there is a superfluity of dung that must be carted out.

Jeff Wheeler

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#85. The Church was not left in this world to perfume the dung-heap of fallen humanity, but to take out, one by one, those who will be saved from the coming destruction.

Donald Grey Barnhouse

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#86. Watching copulating dung-beetles is exciting if you drink enough Red Bull, Jack.

Jonathan Dunne

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#87. It is always better to be a bookworm rather than being a dung-beetle!

Chandrakant Kaluram Mhatre

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#88. The Newark train station is about as romantic as a pile of hippo dung with head lice.

Harlan Coben

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#89. My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

C.S. Lewis

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#90. Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

Thomas Jefferson

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#91. Fox dung! I'm a loyal ShadowClan cat. If I'm ever made deputy or leader it will be because I have earned it myself - and my Clanmates and StarClan wish it. You're twisting the warrior code to get what you want, just like you did when you were alive.

Erin Hunter

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#92. Turn yourself over to Aksel, and I might let her go. (Arast)
Yeah, right. And I'm a one-legged dung dealer. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#93. It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#94. May the devil himself splatter you with dung.

Jean Cocteau

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#95. Oh, now, Ria, you malign me. I'm as honest as a rose garden is beautiful."
"And as full of dung," replied Sophronia without missing a beat.

Gail Carriger

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#96. These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated soul of trees which scatter their seed about their feet, with little conception of any larger world beyond the dun rocks among which they vegetated.

Emile Zola

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#97. Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.

Allen Ginsberg

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#98. I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don't know if I could walk the talk. But anyone who isn't willing to die for his convictions isn't worth living. My characters, no matter how demented they are, they have their convictions.

Elias Koteas

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