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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it’s better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.
The environment doesn’t change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
I went to my son’s graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I’ve never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it’s the good people who don’t speak out.
Dealing with global warming doesn’t mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.
I’m an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.
Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.
They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
I love blackjack. But I’m not addicted to gambling. I’m addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
I’m enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that’s considered artistic, there’s a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can’t exist without it.
You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.
I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
I’m a person that doesn’t have that many goals or plans. I feel like I’m the wind and I blow through life it’s whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I’m happy and I embrace it.
I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It’s really above and beyond American politics.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it’ll be the last car he’ll ever lay down in front of.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it’s because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.
I’ve always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.
In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
I put the copy of ‘A Christmas Carol’ that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the ‘Christmas Spirits.’ I plan to read it to my grandson.
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.
You do have to change things as warfare changes.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.