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The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.
Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.
Actually, it's the other way round. In a poor country, the only consolation people can have is the one that comes from their beliefs.
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to go about it and I was right.
Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
The blog is certainly another tool for writers out there to break their way in. But being a blogger does not make you a great writer.
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed
Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the risk of linear TV becoming obsolete.
God's promises are not always fulfilled as quickly as or in the way we might hope; they come according to His timing and in His ways.
I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.
Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also...the difficulties that are in our way.
It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.
Anything that immobilizes you, gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.
I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.
What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'
I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.
Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.
I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me
Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
There are no rules for living, because you are unique. Find your truth in each moment and dare to live it. That is the way to freedom.
Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.
Acting isn't something that I think about very consciously, somehow that just doesn't work for me. I just kind of feel my way into it.
The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.
I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.
The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future.
I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore.
If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.
I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.
I mean, [Donald Trump] is going to get hit. He's going to get hit often. He's not going to like it. That's the way it works, you know.
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.
I love words; I love the way they sound. Once I've worked on everything else, the last drafts of my books come down to how they sound.
When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.
You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.
When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.
In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.
I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand.
Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.