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Old 09-28-2009, 05:06 PM   #4410
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Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

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I was just thinking to myself about how much I love Polanski's work (Chinatown is my favorite movie) and how it seems that I tend to like the work of people who are total assholes. Picasso (asshole) is my favorite artist, Wagner (anti-semitic asshole) composed my favorite opera and Polanski directed my favorite movie. If I like an artist or an actor or athlete for what they do professionally, chances are they are assholes in their personal life.

Maybe there are just a lot of successful assholes.
I think there is a lot to this theory. An awful lot of very successful people tend to be total assholes. In some cases, they are outright sociopaths.
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