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 just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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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'm obsessed with being human.
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Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.
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I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.
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The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.
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Existentialism is possible only in a world where God is dead or a luxury, and where Christianity is dead.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on videotape, watched them and was instantly into it. During the first episode, I was like, 'Eh.' By the time I got to the second one, I couldn't watch them fast enough. I got on the phone that night, called Time Warner cable and ordered HBO right then.
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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.
