Ayn Rand Quotes

Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.

Ayn Rand

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• Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Myself
  • London

• Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
  • Captain

• In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Time
  • Business
  • Change

• Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Society
  • Challenge

• I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Always
  • Independent
  • Even

• I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Real
  • Health
  • Care

• 'I’m not a demagogue.''That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues-to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankind’s moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to one’s survival and vice versa.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Value
  • Environment
  • Moral

• No I didn't ban the press. The press banned me. In later years in the blossom of my career, some editors got across to me and said they wanted me in their mags because the readers wanted me. But I refused because it wasn't me who started the war.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • War
  • Career

• Margaret Sanger: Oh, John you do ask hard questions. I should think, that instead of being impractical, it is really very practical and intelligent and humane.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Intelligent

• Heckler: I'll have your babies!!

  

  Bo Burnham

• Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • God
  • Forever
  • Dying

• I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

  

  Marilu Henner

• I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Real
  • Society
  • Powerful

• Forty-nine is extremely young. If forty-nine is not young, that would make me old, and I am not old. I have reached the age of maturity to which all humans must particularly aspire; to dismiss this pinnacle of perfection as old age is to demean all of humankind.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Age
  • Young
  • Maturity

• The challenges our state faces must be met with the best solutions and ideas we can muster - and good ideas and good people reside on both sides of the aisle.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Proud
  • Boat

• Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

  

  Mildred Dresselhaus
  • Training
  • Interests
  • Options

• Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.

  

  Ayn Rand