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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
I mean, we’re really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
The essence of a government health care system – for people who have never lived under it and don’t know – is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
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.
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
Truth is life’s most precious commodity.
Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don’t try to trip you up… they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do… if they’ve loved a story they love to know how it started.
I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.
It’s received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
I’ve set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
Opposites may attract, but I wouldn’t put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
I don’t cook. I don’t know anything about food. I’ve never reviewed a restaurant.
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
It’s hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
At the end of four years’ time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there’s your numbers.
Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.
The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
There are times when I’m driving home after a day’s shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would’ve been so much better if I had written it out.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that’s detestable we have to take action.
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next.
I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn’t call it fear, but it’s an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I’m able to do that.
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
I’d love to travel to the Holy Land.
Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it’s nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.
I haven’t seen a player in this game, as long as I’ve been in it, that can’t be pitched to… Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.
Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It’s like opening Pandora’s box.
I pinch myself because of the understanding that I’ve been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get – to serve their government and their people at this level.
If I didn’t have children, I think my life would be a failure.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there’s such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.
Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you’re helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.