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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I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.
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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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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
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I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.
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Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.
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Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.
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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.
