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RIDER STRONG
You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think ... DARREN ARONOFSKY What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sin...
ZELJKO IVANEK The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. 
How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ... 
Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure... 
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you... 
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai... 
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir... 
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. 
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. 
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? 
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru... 
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee... 
Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity. 
The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or... 
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. 
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. 
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h... 
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight. 
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the... 
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory. 
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami... 
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. 
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss. 
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure... 
There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. 
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon... 
Iron hand in a velvet glove. 
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill... 
I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white. 
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust... 
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a... 
I could never hate anyone I knew. 
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more... 
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ... 
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official... 
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. 
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ... 
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait. 
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th... 
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is... 
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al... 
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v... 
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. 
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, ... 
You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d... 
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. 
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand wha... 
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... 
I'd rather go by bus. 
This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers. 
Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf... 
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. 
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o... 
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own. 
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it. 
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an... 
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide... 
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the int... 
The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. 
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- fr... 