Ayn Rand Quotes
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.
