Ayn Rand Quotes
On second handers: They are always concerned with people - not facts, ideas, work or production. What would happen to the world without those who think, work, and produce?
Quotes to Explore
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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I like being unconventional.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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I still have a young attitude.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Basketball was always my game.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off...
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I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
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I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.
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On second handers: They are always concerned with people - not facts, ideas, work or production. What would happen to the world without those who think, work, and produce?
