Ayn Rand Quotes

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

Ayn Rand

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• I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • House
  • Sister
  • Parent

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Model
  • Grow

• Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Hand
  • Go
  • Ecology

• When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Today
  • Want
  • Tomorrow

• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Alive
  • Evolve

• You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Perfect
  • Movies
  • Look

• Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

  

  Garcelle Beauvais
  • Relationship
  • Perfect
  • Divorce

• Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • You
  • Transition
  • Another

• I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Like
  • Classical

• I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Get
  • Recognized

• I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Up
  • Different
  • Small

• Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Short

• I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Diversification

• I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Way
  • Kid

• I eat every two hours. I sleep for eight hours. I have lots of water. I pray to keep calm. Most importantly, I have a smile on my face.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Water
  • Sleep
  • Smile

• I think the best thing I've written is a story called 'The Boxer and the Blonde.' It's a piece about Billy Conn, the white would-be heavyweight champion of the world, who lived in Pittsburgh.

  

  Frank Deford
  • World
  • Champion
  • Blonde

• I'm not really an awards person. I've got a couple of gongs over my time, but I tend to be snubbed anyway for some reason.

  

  Anthony Warlow
  • Time
  • Couple

• The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once I got back home and began to follow the war on TV and in the press I began to see this enormous con game - I can't think of any other word for it - that government and the military was foisting on the American people, especially on the young men of my generation, and even worse, the young men of my generation who weren't particularly economically or intellectually privileged.

  

  Philip Caputo
  • People
  • Men
  • Home

• I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Bad
  • Together
  • House

• The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

  

  Ayn Rand