Ayn Rand Quotes

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
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• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

  Vicki Baum
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• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
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• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

  

  Omar Sharif
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• I drink lots of water, and I've been trying to do daily wheatgrass shots, but they're awful, and I have to plug my nose.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Trying
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• I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Song
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• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
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• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
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• The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Power
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  • End

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Time
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• I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
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• The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • Me
  • Landscape

• The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

  

  Bob Feller
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• Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

  

  Twinkle Khanna

• I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

  

  Paula Poundstone
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• We are not programmed to bury our kids.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Kids
  • Programmed

• Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Black
  • Fighting
  • Brother

• It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Fighting