Ayn Rand Quotes

It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.

Ayn Rand

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • End
  • Kings
  • France

• I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Blues

• I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Work
  • Think
  • Habits

• Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Happiness
  • Absence
  • Striving

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Well
  • Arts
  • Thrive

• You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Change
  • Same

• In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Day
  • Summer
  • Year

• I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Night
  • Sound
  • Record

• Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • War
  • News

• A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Time
  • Fall

• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

  

  Imran Khan
  • House
  • You
  • Fire

• The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • World

• Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give these youngsters a fighting chance. When a child or parent faces an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find hope at St. Jude - a place where miracles can and do happen.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• A good folk song tells you something you already know, in a form you're already familiar with, on terms that were set down long before you were born - when the country was primarily windblown dust, open wagon trains, and dysfunctional towns like Deadwood.

  

  David Means
  • Good
  • Long
  • Country

• It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Good
  • Live
  • Die