Ayn Rand Quotes
I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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If rational thought thinks itself out to a conclusion, it arrives at something non-rational which, nevertheless, is a necessity of thought. This is the paradox which dominates our spiritual life. If we try to get on without this non-rational element, there result views of the world and of life which have neither vitality nor value.
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When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.
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You're always going to have more traffic if you're a free website. But we've always admitted that the New York Times was behind other news organizations in making our stories available to people on the web. BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post are much better than we are at that, and I envy them for this. But I think the trick for the New York Times is to stick to what we are. That doesn't mean: Don't change. But I don't want to be BuzzFeed. If we tried to be what they are, we would lose.
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I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
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I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
