I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.
~By George Woodcock ~
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
~By Ron Livingston ~
I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~By Max Planck ~
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~By Max Planck ~
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
~By Jacques Ellul ~
Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.
~By Richard Branson ~
Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.
~By Julie Walters ~
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.
~By David Ricardo ~
I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.
~By Taryn Manning ~
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.
~By Craig Ferguson ~
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.
~By Michael Beschloss ~
I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.
~By Joss Whedon ~
The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.
~By Johannes P. Muller ~
The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
~By Emma Thompson ~
There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.
~By Jamelia ~
You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.
~By George Steinbrenner ~
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
~By Taryn Manning ~
I always got a kick out of it when they called it the California Sound because it really came out of Liverpool and Greenwich Village.
~By Roger McGuinn ~
The process of putting the DVD and the CD together was great fun, because it provided a good excuse for the four of us to make time to get together again. I am especially pleased with the end result of these two projects.
~By Dave Blood ~
Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly.
~By Daniel Johns ~
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
~By Julia Morgan ~
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
~By Anais Nin ~
I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!
~By Patsy Cline ~
I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.
~By Dustin Hoffman ~
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
~By Tony Blair ~
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
~By Dolly Parton ~
But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.
~By John Fahey ~
I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist.
~By Chris Brown ~
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
~By Tobias Wolff ~
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
~By Avicenna ~
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
~By Lin Yutang ~
I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.
~By Marilu Henner ~
I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
~By Frances Conroy ~
They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be.
~By Charlotte Church ~
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
~By Mac Thornberry ~
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
~By Julius Erving ~
It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.
~By Anthony Holden ~
I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
~By Thom Yorke ~
Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.
~By Tony Hsieh ~
Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
~By Ryan White ~
I generally sell my records online or at the show. You can undersell the distributor and the stores, and people know what they're getting cause they've just seen you live.
~By Roy Ayers ~
I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
~By Tom Cruise ~
TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.
~By Dick Wolf ~
I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.
~By Joseph Force Crater ~
But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.
~By John Perkins ~
Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.
~By Keith Emerson ~
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
~By Jim Henson ~
People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease.
~By Robert Barany ~
I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.
~By Kim Dae Jung ~
I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
~By Mitch Hedberg ~
Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.
~By Richard Widmark ~
I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus, it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.
~By Sarah Chalke ~
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.
~By Woody Harrelson ~
This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.
~By Terry Riley ~
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
~By Albert Ellis ~
If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.
~By Tracey Emin ~
The rock sitting on the shelf has potential because it can fall-it's the same way with the Internet. It has this potential. It's not really doing it yet, but it's about to.
~By Michael Nesmith ~
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
And getting stunt coordinator Dan Bradley and everybody from the whole 'Bourne Supremacy' crew, I think was real cool for our film because we do a bunch of really big jumps in this movie.
~By Sean William Scott ~
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
~By June Jordan ~
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story.
~By Bobby Farrelly ~
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.
~By John W. Vessey, Jr. ~
Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.
~By Marilu Henner ~
To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.
~By Ronald Blythe ~
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
~By Elaine Paige ~
It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.
~By James Bovard ~
If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration.
~By Ben Harper ~
It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.
~By John Leeson ~
There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.
~By Mickey Gilley ~
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules.
~By Amitabh Bachchan ~
Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food.
~By Georges Simenon ~
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.'
~By Barbara Billingsley ~
And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.
~By Lord Robertson ~
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