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The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.
The reason why Donald Trump does have a very strong base of popularity is he's an authentic person and not necessarily a politician.
Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.
Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
There are very interesting controversies within evolution; however, whether evolution occurs is not one of them. It definitely does.
All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.
Heaven? Floating about with everyone you ever knew for eternity? Me family does me 'ed in after one day at xmas, I'd rather be mush.
Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What does thou with thy best apparel on?
Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.
There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.
This is what I would ask of the American people, and that is, and the media does not do this terribly often - put things in contact.
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.
One of my daughters told me the other day, "Kevin Hart is funnier than you, Daddy." I told her, "Does Kevin Hart make you pancakes?"
There is no game like the direct attack. Fancy strokes, while effective to watch, do not bring the results a fast driving game does.
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.
What does she do?" "She's a producer." Of course, in Los Angeles this doesn't mean much more than "she's a member of the human race.
Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.
I wanted to be in a Baz Luhrmann film. It's just extraordinary. He's so amazing at what he does. He makes the most incredible films.
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is . . . In knowledge there is power.
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
My fame? Truly I don't consider myself famous...long way to go yet. But if anyone does ask for an autograph it's a wonderful feeling.
I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.
I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
I'll just let the hair speak for itself. It's got a Twitter account, so it actually does more speaking than I probably do on Twitter.
Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.