The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.
Hugh Jackman
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne
See in what peace a Christian can die.
Joseph Addison
The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Louis Aragon
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
Halle Berry
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Bob Feller
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
It is always in season for old men to learn.
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
Joel Osteen
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.
Adele
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.
Jamie Foxx
I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
Jean Claude Duvalier
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice Walker
I pray for no more youthTo perish before its prime;That Revenge and iron-heated WarMay fade with all that has gone beforeInto the night of time.
Drop, dropin our sleep, upon the heartsorrow falls, memorys pain,and to us, though against our very will,even in our own despite,comes wisdomby the awful grace of God.
Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust
I've always had an active imagination.
Rickie Lee Jones
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.
Aesop
There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.
Enemies promises were made to be broken.
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'
Rian Johnson
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