General quotes
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Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Nobody's going to tell me that my dog doesn't love me. That's crazy talk.
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
As I read more and more — and it was not all verse, by any means — my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Once we decided to be in this industry, we have to be ready for everything. You have to be strong but hard working. No pain, no gain.
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.
Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.
For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.
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