You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

Pablo Picasso

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Karl Marx

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Christopher Walken

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

Edward Norton

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

Warren Farrell

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Lauren Graham

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Louis D. Brandeis

A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.

Orson Scott Card

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Samuel Johnson

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Daley Thompson