Quotes by Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he’s sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Earth

Fool

Marriage

A man doesn’t say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he’d spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Men

Privilege

Saving Money

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

Beautiful

Believe

Music

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

Bankers

Leeches

May

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.

Christian

Doctors

Mean

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular gift in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.

Business

Jobs

Responsibility

Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?… Did you ever hear music up there?… It’s the music a man’s spirit sings to his heart, when the earth’s far away and there isn’t any more fear. It’s the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.

Beautiful

Freedom

Ocean

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

Class

Working Class

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

Brother

Kings

Years

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

Dust

Heart

Voice

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Acceptance

Airplane

Average

Bankers

Beautiful

Believe

Bombs

Book

Boys

Brother

Business

Christian

Class

Doctors

Dumb

Dust

Earth

Fear

Fighting

Fool

Freedom

Goes On

Heart

Jobs

Kings

Laughing

Leeches

Marriage

Matter

May

Mean

Men

Music

Night

Ocean

One Man

People

Privilege

Responsibility

Rome

Running

Sake

Saving Money

Sleep

Sunshine

Thinking

Truth

Voice

War

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Quotes by Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he’s sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

A man doesn’t say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he’d spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them.

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular gift in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.

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