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Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.
It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.
It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?
One of the great joys of a creative life is that your observations and loose moments aren't lost forever; they live in your work.
I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.
Don't get me wrong - I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.
A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.
I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.
I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.
Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
The only 'anti-fascist' song that makes any sense to me is the Beatles' 'Love Is All You Need', because, quite simply, it's true.
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.
Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.
Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.
Michael, don’t,” Eve said. “He won’t hurt us.” Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious.
I’m sorry, Eve. I love you. I’m not letting you do this.” She screamed and battered harder. “You love me? You asshole! Let me go!
Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
When you're looking through bins of thousands of random, unsorted photos, every hundredth one or so will have some writing on it.
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.
The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
You can change your emotion immediately .. by thinking of something joyful, or singing a song, or remembering a happy experience.
The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.
We thought humble and proud at the same time, all at once in love again with this painful bittersweet lovely thing called flight.
In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.