I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful so compelling that when-in a decade, a century, a millennium-- we grasp it, we will say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How can we have been so blind for so long?

John Wheeler

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Maynard Keynes

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Thomas C. Haliburton

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Martin Luther

I don't think chocolate and blueberries would be good, I think YOU and chocolate would be better.

Oscar Torres

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Nate Silver

You don't have to let his definition of success be yours

Jody Hedlund

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

Miranda Lambert

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Thomas Jefferson

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Sir John Egan