Ayn Rand Quotes
Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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I love trying new restaurants.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
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The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel a few years later, I sent him a copy!
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Capitalism is the only system where such men are free to function and where progress is accompanied, not by forced privations, but by a constant rise in the general level of prosperity, of consumption and of enjoyment of life.
