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?
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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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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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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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At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.
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I’ll respond to your text message, baby.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.
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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?
