I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.
~By Mira Nair ~
I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it.
~By Robert Greenwald ~
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
~By John C. Calhoun ~
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
~By Woody Harrelson ~
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
~By Richard Pryor ~
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
~By Daniel Webster ~
We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
~By Mary Lou Williams ~
Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?
~By Russ Carnahan ~
One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.
~By Jay Rockefeller ~
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
~By Marya Mannes ~
Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.
~By Red Skelton ~
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
~By Mary Catherine Bateson ~
Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.
~By Anna Kournikova ~
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
~By Mother Jones ~
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.
~By Tina Brown ~
Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
~By Jacques Verges ~
It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
~By Leslie Banks ~
My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.
~By George Weinberg ~
It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.
~By John Amery ~
There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity.
~By John Doerr ~
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
~By Wilhelm Steinitz ~
I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.
~By Joanna Trollope ~
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
~By Peter Brimelow ~
I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.
~By Jessica Hahn ~
War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.
~By Ian Hay ~
You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.
~By Richard Owen ~
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
~By Confucius ~
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
~By Edward Bennett Williams ~
By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
~By Richard Pryor ~
You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.
~By Marc Racicot ~
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
~By William Godwin ~
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.
~By John Ritter ~
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.
~By Michael Enzi ~
The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.
~By Sid Meier ~
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
~By Catfish Hunter ~
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.
~By Tommy Shaw ~
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
~By Chuck Yeager ~
The end crowneth the work.
~By Elizabeth I ~
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
~By Joseph Hume ~
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
~By O. J. Simpson ~
Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'
~By Angie Stone ~
And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.
~By Dave Winfield ~
We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
~By Joseph Roux ~
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
~By Whitney Houston ~
Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
~By Paul Getty ~
The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.
~By Donald Evans ~
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
~By Robert Bork ~
Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.
~By Fritz Zwicky ~
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
~By John Draper ~
I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
~By Joanna Southcott ~
I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.
~By Claire Danes ~
Disney was a family film studio. I was supposed to be their young, leading man. After they found out I was involved with someone, that was the end of Disney.
~By Tommy Kirk ~
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.
~By Giorgio Moroder ~
What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.
~By Bob Saget ~
You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
No nation has friends only interests.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
~By Ruth Graham ~
People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.
~By Gena Rowlands ~
I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.
~By Tim Johnson ~
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
~By Hank Aaron ~
With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.
~By John Entwistle ~
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
~By Chester Brown ~
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
~By Robert Frost ~
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
~By Douglas Adams ~
Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
~By Kit Williams ~
I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.
~By Tom Glazer ~
U.S. journalists I don't think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government's policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.
~By Robert Fisk ~
Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
~By Thom Yorke ~
I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.
~By Judy Biggert ~
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
~By Will Adams ~
The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
~By John D. Rockefeller, Jr. ~
My school is attended by near three hundred scholars.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
~By Rachel Bilson ~
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
~By Henri Bergson ~
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
~By John Travolta ~
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
~By Margaret Mead ~
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
~By Bao Dai ~
Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.
~By William Joyce ~
All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
~By Shannen Doherty ~
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