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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
It doesn’t make any sense… that’s why I trust it!
Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It’s on the lifestyle diet.
I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
I almost forgot what it’s like to be proud of my government.
Your face is your calling card, but you’re not so famous that you can’t go out.
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, ‘Oh, our attitude has changed. We don’t dislike these people any more.’ But by the strangest coincidence, they haven’t taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books.
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can’t think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you’re actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn’t find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business.
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.
My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I’d rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney’s barber shop.
Prayer is mans greatest power!
I think films about men are often about characters who don’t want to express their feelings. You’re supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that’s a bit dull. Women’s stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won’t have that person around me.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn’t want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me… I’ve done the parts I wanted to do.
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they’re going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn’t think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.