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I have always thought that the photographer does artistic work and that art consists of working with fictional premises.
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away.
Does your uncle need anything? A coffee? A latte?” “He needs someone to bear his illegitimate child if you’re interested
Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.
You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.
I don't admire how much a person has, I admire what a person does with what they have and I think that defines you most.
If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.
Peace is not passive, it is active. Peace is not appeasement, it is strength. Peace does not 'happen,' it requires work.
Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does.
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
Why should nutrition matter less in the creation of young humans than it does in young plants? I'm sure that it doesn't.
Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.
If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.
Joy is not a feeling in us. Joy does not enter into us. We enter into joy: "Enter into the joy of your Lord" (Mt 25:21).
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.
Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.
Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do.
We don't require luck," said Will, "we have a heavenly mandate, after all. With God on your side, what does luck matter?
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
I don't think Trump reads. If he does, my guess is he's reading autobiographies of ... I wonder if he's read Mein Kampf.
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery.
...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.
The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.
I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.
Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.
The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
Well my question is if the federal courts don't have jurisdiction over a constitutional question then who the hell does?
Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
Ted said, "You're working for the Order now." "Yes." "How does it feel?" "Well, Doctor, it feels rather sore and tingly.
Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.
The studies that show the reason Washington real estate is booming and there are so many lobbyists in town, it does pay.
All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.
I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?
Liberals don't hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.