Ayn Rand Quotes
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.

Quotes to Explore
-
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
-
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
-
One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic.
-
I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
-
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
-
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
-
It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
-
Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
-
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
-
Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
-
Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
-
You can cage the singer but not the song.
-
I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
-
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
-
For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
-
Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
-
The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.
-
He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.
-
I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
-
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
-
The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.
-
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.