General quotes
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The mountains are calling and I must go.
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods — it is the business of us all, here and now.
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it'.
New roads; new ruts.
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.
Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.
My first encounter with Wu-Tang Clan came when I ordered six CDs from those throwback catalog orders, from Columbia House or something, and '36 Chambers' was one of them. It was on from then.
