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Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn’t care about education. I don’t know what I cared about.
It’s mainly about working hard and proving to people you’re serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they’re the finished articles, the bee’s knees, and it’s not true.
I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o’clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
Life is but thought.
The school-boy doesn’t force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.
I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.
I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we’re lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.
I had sadness for breakfast.
In the case of my book, I don’t think it’s really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he’s enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice… I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man’s intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
I wish the Peace Corps and its volunteers continued success and perseverance. We are grateful for their contributions to society and dedication to providing assistance where it is needed. May the Peace Corps continue its legacy of service, both at home and abroad.
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion – we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.
My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.’ Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
So now, cut to ten years later, and I’m making this amazing contract with Pantene. It’s incredible.
The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow – and trust – the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
With the evolution of technology, kids really need to be computer-savvy.
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
Everything that gets born dies.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there’s the bad guy in the back seat. It’s infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That’s like going to bed and thinking there’s a monster under your bed. It’s silly.
I do find comedy difficult. I don’t know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I’m gone.
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, ‘you are going to have to learn to do this,’ and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother’s life.
Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
I’ve started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we’ve got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It’s for NBC, it’s called ‘Afterthought,’ and it’s science fiction-ish. That’s fun.