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Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama’s extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
I don’t even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.
I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That’s the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – what’s going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
History develops, art stands still.
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy – a crow and a rabbit – to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
One thing I’ve learned to appreciate as I’ve gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I’m not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
My dad’s an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
I really don’t have favorites I’m just a fan of movies, period.
If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.
The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama’s initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.
With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children’s right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
I don’t think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there’s some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Swimming is one of the hardest sports.
I love playing a dad. It’s hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
I mean the cool thing about the movies is that you get to try on these different personalities and different styles.
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.