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As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
I think being a teenager is a difficult journey in and of itself, but being transgender makes it that much harder.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
There's a quality of life in Maine which is this singular and unique. I think. It's absolutely a world onto itself.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
It may be a cliché, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
My goal is to attack every single day and get better every single day. The rest of the stuff will take care of itself.
Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
There are filmmakers who get lucky with the first film itself, and then there are some of us who have to face difficulties.