General quotes
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.
While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.
I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
People look at me and look, but I do not care.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
A film is — or should be — more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.
If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
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