All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Quote by Clive James

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Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost...

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost...

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the...

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the...

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got...

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got...

When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in...

When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in...

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and...

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and...