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George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I’d do any character he might create.
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.
The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality – the Arab people like me and respect me – thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
I’d think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.
I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
But it’s much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it’s more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we’ve heard in fairy tales.
I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don’t have freedom to do anything anymore.
The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio – I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can’t tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.
In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.
I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
It’s funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said ‘Sparkle,’ I thought, ‘For real? It’s really called ‘Sparkle?” I was wondering, too, how does ‘Jordin Sparks as Sparkle’ sound?
As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I’m a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master’s master, the genius of the age.
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn’t afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it’s cool if she’s a tomboy.
Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.
I’m like a really goofy home ec teacher.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.
The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall!
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another’s state of consciousness.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that’s real power.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible – and every place alike.