John F. Kennedy Quotes

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

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• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Everything

• Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Think
  • Humor

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Project
  • Committing

• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Man
  • Present

• A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.

  

  Washed Out
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • First

• You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Done
  • Day
  • Better

• I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Home
  • Him

• In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • Want
  • Amazing

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Culture
  • Acting
  • India

• My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took it to the extreme. I was told in Sunday school that you had to accept Jesus into your heart if you didn't want to go to hell. So of course I did that a thousand times. But the catch was you had to mean it with all of your heart.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Heart
  • Parents

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• Continuity is a wonderful thing, and it is a very rare thing in show business.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Business

• What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Family
  • Love
  • Commitment

• Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Commitment
  • Tolerance