John C. Calhoun Quotes
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it's a better way of telling the stories.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.
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When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
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What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way.
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I notice that as I get rid of the protective covering of the middle years, I am more openly amused and incautious and less careful socially, and that all this makes for increasingly pleasant contacts with the world.
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The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
