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People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I’ve got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There’s no future in it.
I wasn’t smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation’s conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. ‘The CBS Evening News,’ ‘ABC World News’ and ‘NBC Nightly News’ haven’t changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren’t watching.
Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can’t give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.
I’ve never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
I wouldn’t say I’m a method actor. I do research when I feel I don’t have enough experience for the part I’m playing.
I love to take risks, I love to travel, and I’m very outdoor-sy, so any girl who can pick up a football and throw a spiral will definitely catch my attention.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world… A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit… But it caught on, especially with young people – they surprised me most of all.
I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, ‘where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?’ We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It’s a real shame if we don’t spend our lives trying to do that.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Nothing will work unless you do.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.
I don’t believe in dieting.
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
I’ve been working at performing for five years now. I’ve been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars I could have had legal problems, but it’s also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
My religion centers in different areas than what’s considered conventional religion.
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don’t know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, ‘I’ve got one question: What color is the red phone?’
I didn’t go to high school, so I don’t have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.
I like the personality of the Belgians. They’re deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design – terrific.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it’s often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
I don’t trust a lot of journalists.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.