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People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringer
Love
People
Reality
Truth
Want
Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
Ann Macbeth
Film
Risk
World
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
John Singer Sargent
We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
John Randolph
Duty
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn’t pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn’t pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.
Allan Sherman
Living
He’s about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.
Sid Waddell
Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don’t seat according to protocol. I don’t invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
Sally Quinn
Charity
Events
Open
People
Power
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher
Promise
Success
Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran
Boredom
Fear
History
Result
Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
Ludwig Quidde
Fight
Law
Order
Success
Understanding
Will
If you’re a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.
Eric Braeden
Children
Trying
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney
Men
Psychology
Women
I think it’s a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that’s a march to folly.
Anna Eshoo
Congress
Country
Folly
Idea
Independence
March
Policy
Will
World
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Chuck Palahniuk
Love
People
Risk
You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I’ll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.
Jim Carrey
Being
Day
Extremes
Months
It is not that I don’t like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.
Vince Gill
Country
Country music
Love
Music
Success
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.
Alexander Herzen
Civilization
First
Order
Slavery
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow
Car
Driving
Night
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton
Dreams
Events
Importance
Man
Memory
Waking
Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.
Alcee Hastings
Dignity
Followers
Peace
People
Respect
Tolerance
Values
So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.
Bert Campaneris
Play
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that’s never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Love
Movies
Work
Most TV shows don’t reward you for paying attention.
Matt Groening
Attention
Reward
I was growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. Back then they didn’t even know what dyslexia was.
Bruce Jenner
Growing up
These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.
Darren Aronofsky
Drama
Garden
Running
Today
Years
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I’ve found it hard to read as much as I’d like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
Louise Brown
Children
Opportunity
Pets
Reason
Work
I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.
Judy Collins
Music
I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
Calvin Klein
Intention
Love
My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.
Richard Roxburgh
I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.
Mira Sorvino
Famous
Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it’s just one mistake.
Brian Boitano
Mistake
People
Press
God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Olympia Dukakis
Energy
Experience
God
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
James D. Watson
Freedom
Pressure
You’ve got to write for your audience.
John Ratzenberger
It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that’s a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
L. Neil Smith
First
Lie
Reality
Time
Truth
War
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
Doug Coupland
Dress
World
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
Events
Sight
Time
Will
When I was about, I’d say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets… So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.
Michelle Rodriguez
Old
Secrets
Years
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.
Richard Stallman
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good – pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A’s.
Steve Case
Pretty
Work
In art economy is always beauty.
Henry James
Art
Beauty
Economy
When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
Joan Jett
Rest
Trying
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.
Sandra Cisneros
Character
Life
Time
Writing
Years
No matter what side of an argument you’re on, you always find some people on your side that wish you were on the other side.
Jascha Heifetz
Argument
People
The good thing about Broadway is that you don’t have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
Seth MacFarlane
Worry
I wouldn’t dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.
Rod Taylor
Dream
Friends
Selling
Work
The information is in the people, not in your head.
Edward T. Hall
Information
People
My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Paul Getty
Art
Love
We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they’re better off working.
John Engler
People
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
Benjamin Haydon
Genius
Nothing