Ayn Rand Quotes
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
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I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
