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Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I’m glad that I did it.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women’s voices regarding their own health care.
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students’ math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
The ’60s were an amazing time.
For as long as I’ve been acting, I have been very lucky to be paired with really great actresses playing my mom.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
There’s a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Women are the real architects of society.
I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.
Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.
I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
If I don’t make the team out of spring training, I’ll keep a good attitude. I’ll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.
But the truth of the matter is, we’re an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That’s why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
Health is the core of human development.
My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It’s embarrassing, because she’s really strong.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn’t in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It’s a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
I never thought about being famous.
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
When you try to predict future E.R.A.’s with past E.R.A.’s, you’re making a mistake.
Family is becoming more and more important to me.
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
Women’s health needs to be front and center – it often isn’t, but it needs to be.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That’s not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That’s barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
I’ve been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn’t pay for the dental work he needed.
When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
All generalizations are false, including this one.