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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Game
  • Focus

• 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.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Great
  • Different
  • Art

• I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Success
  • Trapped

• 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.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Think
  • Start
  • Pressure

• 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.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Book
  • Point
  • Where

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Violence
  • More

• 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.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Free
  • Divorce

• 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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Always
  • Story
  • Last

• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Respect
  • Look
  • Just

• I consider myself a little weak.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Myself
  • Little
  • Weak

• As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Guy
  • Deep
  • Rap

• This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Confidence
  • Child
  • Greatest

• I've never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • People
  • Up

• When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Wife
  • Week
  • Kissing

• ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Heaven
  • Chaos
  • Unity

• Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Chaos