The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 245)

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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
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I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Iran should not confuse American restraint with a lack of American resolve.
Mike Pence (as Vice President of the United States) - Juli 2019
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
I can, therefore I am.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his work from 'Don't Look Now' and 'Eureka.' So I was very excited to work with him. The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.
In 1969, when I was still living in London, I had gone with some friends to see 'Easy Rider' in a movie theater in Piccadilly Circus and had returned alone some days later to see it again. It was Jack's combination of ease and exuberance that had captured me from the moment he had come on-screen.
Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat.
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
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History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
I know firsthand how long it takes to learn how to love yourself.
I want my tattoos to be a story of my life.
I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.
It's always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times.
I think what's surprised me about the music industry is that you never know what's going to happen. I've had to teach myself that, because I love to know everything. I'm quite a control freak when it comes to stuff like that.
A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.
Though lovers be lost, love shall not.