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May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

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• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Where

• The point of the future is that anything can happen.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Future
  • Point
  • Happen

• You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Money
  • Giving

• Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feet

• Holy cow!

  

  Harry Caray
  • Holy
  • Cow

• I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Films

• At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Better
  • Fix

• I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Unknown

• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  

  Ira Glass

• Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Weird

• On the surface of the water, a midge vanishes into a hungry ripple. I'm not ready yet. He wonders why, at his age and having come so far, he still feels that. The culmination of his luck is that he will never feel any other way.

  

  Clive James
  • Why
  • Age
  • Water

• Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Time
  • Space

• I have a great family, I have great friends, and my mom is like my mama bear. She's the one that's going to tell me 'no' when everyone around me says 'yes.

  

  Selena Gomez
  • Great
  • Family
  • Friends

• Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • People
  • Together
  • Party

• The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Ethics
  • Bases
  • Sermons

• While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Business
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• I did a stint on 'Dollhouse,' and prior to my stint on 'Dollhouse,' I had no plans to be working with Joss Whedon until he said, 'Hey, do you want to do this?' When he calls, I'll pick up the phone, and that's how that works.

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Up

• We need a leader who can lower taxes, protect small businesses, and increase job creation nationwide. I have no doubt that John McCain appreciates the important role Hispanics play not only in the economy, but in our nation's culture as well -- he has a track record with Hispanics for more than 20 years as a senator from Arizona. The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.

  

  Katie Barberi
  • Strong
  • Culture
  • President

• May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

  

  Plato
  • Ethics
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