It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

Nelson Goodman

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Thomas Huxley

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'

Drew Barrymore

I've always been into sports and being physical.

Moon Bloodgood

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

W. I. E. Gates

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Richard Whately

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

Edward Norton

Together with a team of financial and legal experts I have spent months exploring all possible alternatives to bankruptcy but to no avail.

Shane Filan

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat.

Arnold Schwarzenegger