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The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they ...

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

Those men, they're built differently. They love differently, and they need different things. We're the same way. This is the life we know, and while ...

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

You knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on ...

Her pulse pounded in her ears. She didn't need to turn around to know he was standing behind her. Most likely with a smirk at ...

Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.

In a democracy, the public should be asked how much security and how much privacy they want for themselves.

I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open ...

Love must blossom. Through love will grow the trees and the bushes.

You don't pay attention man/that's why your money is the size of your attention span.

In the last analysis, luck comes only to the well prepared.

As you consciously choose to give yourself the gifts of self-care, they become an integral part of your rhythm and the vital tools that you ...

Your word is not above the lawIf your word of honour is in conflict with the law, then you must break your word and take ...

I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that the parliament will ...

A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'

If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely ...

Okay, Ella. Is it possible for you to be any more vague?""Maybe," I say, smiling at her.

Follow your Dreams - They give pathway to the wonder of who you are.

God is in you as the ocean is in the wave.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from ...

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot ...

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action ...

Some goodness in this world is understood by the presence of the opposite. One will value light in the middle of darkness, and appreciate clemency ...

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.

Only super-efforts count.

At university - when I was supposed to be studying biochemistry - I had tried to write a children's book about a boy and a ...

The federal government ... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was ...

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.

I like a girl who doesn't play any games. I like a very sweet girl.

Drawing is the sum of directions.

Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the ...

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing,

When children don't learn the value of cooperating with family members, they miss a valuable lesson about commitment.

I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost ...

I never thought about success. I always thought about doing the job at hand. My goal was getting through the show that night.

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,his name, ...

A butterfly could flap its wings and set molecules of air in motion, which would move other molecules of air, in turn moving more molecules ...

He was right here and nowhere to be found.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, ...

My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of ...

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

My backpack has seven or eight DVDs in it and four or five of them have been there three months and I'm desperate to get ...

I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and ...

Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part.

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone ...

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

I used to try and forget, now I desperately try to remember. I used to control my thoughts, now they control me.I used to fear ...

I have to stay true to myself.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs ...

One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the ...

People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make ...

As she entered and locked eyes with Mr Vaughn Granger for only the second time ever, she was aware of two things; one, coming to ...

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to ...

Freedom from fear's consuming control over us hinges upon our honestly dealing with what our overwhelming fears are specifically about and then coming to terms ...

The dead vanishes into thin air.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I was used to hanging out late after playing a gig - you mix adrenaline with alcohol and you can stay up all night.

Habit is the best thing for you if you're trying to write prose.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect ...

He was pressing himself against the wall as though trying to get through it by osmosis.

Write down everything you remember. You'll want to have it written down to look back on later, when your mind sands all the sharp edges ...

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life ...

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far ...

We might say that psychoanalysis revealed to us the complex penalties of denying the truth of man's condition, what we might call the costs of ...

In the wilderness, we walk and keep the way of the Creator

Everybody loves things that sparkle.

Doing brings happiness. Too much time for discussion - discord.

Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind. This is precisely the point where ...

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it ...

Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, ...

Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live.

Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.

I had no interest in starting over again, but there are some people whom we grant the role of oracle in our lives and when ...

The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

He knew from long experience that a letter sent in fury merely put a weapon into the hands of your enemy. Poison, in preserved form, ...

The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day ...

Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm ...

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

The value is in the worth, not in the number.

When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

If the powers that be really knew how much time I spent thinking about and researching celebrities, they probably wouldn't let me anywhere near the ...

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.