Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Bill Gates

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

Shia LaBeouf

In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.

Alexandra Patsavas

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Walt Disney

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

Ralph Bunche

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half of life consists of the chance without the capacity

Mark Twain

Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it

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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice -- no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Samuel Johnson

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

Marilyn Monroe

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson