Ayn Rand Quotes
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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I consider myself a little weak.
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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What is the main thing in love? To know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
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The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."
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But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
