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Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It’s like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.
A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don’t mix. This is the stock response of the left.
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
I think the most important foundation about any relationship is just being honest. You’ve got to. My wife and I are honest to a fault with each other, and we’re best friends on top of it, so we’re very fortunate.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn’t easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.
A dream doesn’t become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Don’t you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
I’m sure that there are reasonable people that had some reasonable projections about the future of New Orleans, but none of those could include not trying to rebuild the city and make it better than it was before.
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
If we’re given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it’s amazing how good we are at it.
Right now, my job is that I’m like an ambulance chaser. I’ve got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I’m far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read ‘Tech Crunch,’ ‘Ad Age.’ I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
You know when something feels so good but you’re afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I’m just doing what little I can with what little I have.
I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don’t like looking at them so much. There’s a sort of pretty thing about me.
All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.
When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
When I haven’t been working I’ve tried to travel a lot.
Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they’ve got computers, too, which is awesome. They’re scary to me.
I’ve convinced myself – I hope I’m right – that children despair of you if you don’t tell them the truth.
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.
You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don’t know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. ‘Trust Your Eyes’ is the best book I’ve written, and I don’t know if I can do any better.
Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.
I like high impact movies.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
I don’t want to die in a car accident. When I die it’ll be a glorious day. It’ll probably be a waterfall.