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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.
God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.
One doth but break-fast here, another dine; he that lives longest does but suppe; we must all goe to bed in another World.
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?
I began dancing when I was just 5, and I never really wanted to become an actress because its what every other model does.
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.
"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
Yeah, people do need to realize that just because they've seen me perform for an hour does not mean that we are now close.
One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.
The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.
Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.
False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people.
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.
We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.
Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.
If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.
I've come to a wonderful realization that is fascinating: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does!
To be successful, one has to be one of three bees: the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.
As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
Rudeness is what gets to me [when someone being rude to me in a supermarket]. Yeah. That one does get to me, I have to say.
God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.