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In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.
Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.
I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.
I feel completely alone – it’s like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you’re famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
I wasn’t one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.
I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We’d meet, they’d come and seek me out, we’d talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.
I didn’t need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don’t get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn’t feel naked.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
I don’t know if it’s possible to live the rock ‘n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science – revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you’re talking about.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
In my experience, it’s not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I’m so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That’s where he’s getting his power from. He’s young and has great elasticity.
Employees are a company’s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.
I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.
The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.
When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive.
I am so fidgety – I swear I have ADD – and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.
I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them – active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular – to try and end the war.