Ayn Rand Quotes
Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.
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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.
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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.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
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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.
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Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
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'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.'
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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.
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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.
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Heckler: I'll have your babies!!
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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.
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It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
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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.
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Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.
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I am a very lazy man, so, for me, the dream is to be at home on the chair with my family.
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Encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate.
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The only way love punishes in by suffering.
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A society that rewards people for violence will get more violence. A society that tolerates people who violate the non-aggression principle will be ruled by aggressive people. A society that believes aggression is necessary in order to function will institutionalize coercion and reward those who provide what it considers necessary.
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Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
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Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
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Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.
