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I always enjoyed watching John Wayne, but it never occurred to me until I spoke with Indians how corrosive and damaging and destructive his movies were - most Hollywood movies were.

- Marlon Brando

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

- Edward Norton

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

- Lyndon Johnson

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

- Aleksander Suglobov