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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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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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
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Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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The only person I'll marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.
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Harrison Ford's still got it goin' on. He's very sexy in that manly-man kind of way.
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I am not a 'culture critic' because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
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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.
