To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
Liam Neeson
Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
William Pitt
I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
Jason Reitman
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.
Joely Richardson
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.
I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example.
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Pittacus
The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
Conan O'Brien
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Earl Pitts
Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow!
Gloria Pitzer
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos
Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous.
Erin Pizzey
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
Ellen Pompeo
How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
Jacques Plante
Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.
Platen
Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
Charles Ives
To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.
I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
Victoria Abril
Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.
Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
Oprah Winfrey
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
Michael Burgess
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, and the skillful direct it.
Jeane Platiere
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel
We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?
Rutherford Platt
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
I do enjoy animated movies.
Nicolas Cage
Each shot is important.
Gary Player
The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.
Barbara Pletcher
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
Lisa Gardner
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore
I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.
Frank Carlucci
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.
J. B. Priestley
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
Simone Weil
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
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