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 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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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
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I'm not a perfect human being.
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No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.
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In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
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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.
