Ayn Rand Quotes
A moment or an eternity-did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
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On the advertising side, view count is not the most important thing. It's engagement.
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You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret
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A moment or an eternity-did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
