Negroes must be free in order to be equal and they must be equal in order to be free… Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better and not for the worse or to keep things as they are.
We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy lets get back to letting every American choose the plan thats best for them and their family.
Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film I wont tell and people feel its because Im being secretive or something but its actually because Im ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader but that wont take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.
Im a part of a program called Toyotas Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing uncivilized experience.
Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when Ive figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
My films are so new and unique that I dont know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And its also a part of an excitement.
Theres all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
I grew up all over Idaho – I was born in Emmett a very small town.
Ive been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. Ive been addicted to video games ever since.
No one man is superior to the game.
In many of the things that people do they themselves are the centre of attention but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings to the unknown and returns us to our rational structured selves refreshed.
I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home I remember a strong encouragement to study.
Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think its very important.
Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
When Obama was first proposed as a presidential candidate in 2007 the nation failed to have a meaningful debate concerning the serious constitutional issue of electing someone whose father was not a U.S. citizen.
If were talking about guys who set the tone youve got to go way back. But if were talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door along with Daniel Bryan.
Across the board women are unhappy with our industry.
My mom tells me the first show we saw was The Secret Garden but I dont remember that.
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself incredible and inconceivable.
When the news wants to tell you something is important they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
But people who really know me know that I am not a bad boy at heart… I am a big teddy bear.
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they wont be complete women. I dont think my daughters generation has that feeling.
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear I could see every star.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two things: first while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful and its only once the plays out that the pain is gone.
My favorite types of movies definitely arent thrillers but at the same time you cant deny the genius of Hitchcocks films.
When everyone is running the machine and its all working theres a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.
People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.
Its cheesy but having a pimple or a bad hair day isnt going to matter in five years. I dont always remember that but I try.
I pray to God I get inside a girls head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
2009 was crazy enough! I cant believe I worked with Jeremy Irons Joan Allen Marsha Mason Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury Jack OBrien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
The majority of the time they take air out of the football. I think that for me is a disadvantage.
I hope Im building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard people take notice.
Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
Life is more important than what film I do next.
You cant stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Who would have ever thought that within a couple months of getting into the WWE that Id be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then nine months after getting here actually being the world champion.
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
Im not a stand up at all its such a fear of mine. My sister does it and shes really great at it.
I dont feel I made any sacrifices at all. Im doing my best to juggle.
One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was dont know anything you dont need to know because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
I feel so fortunate and lucky I dont have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong his life Im sure was always in the right.
I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. Were the people closest to the people.
Im a total performer.
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldnt know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
I can clap with one hand.
Chris Messina is awesome. Hes amazing.
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
I had no political background. Thats why PM Bhutto gave me the responsibility of the nuclear programme and we acquired nuclear capability in a span of mere six years which was a great milestone.
Oil wealth has been a curse on us made us weak and docile.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
But Im never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing thats gonna stop me.
You never really know as an actor its completely out of your control in terms of editing and music and film stock shot selection
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy and then we will have a dead banking industry.
I will say this: In order for the planet to survive there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.
Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going We need him? No. He wasnt. Hes too busy. Theres no way. But somebody may have been looking and going All right I like this guy. Lets give him a shot.
One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
However I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates as well as of course supervising research students.
What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
I always ask why cant I be just like Cary Grant or something.
I simplify the spices. Im the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and theres ten spices in it Im going to have to think long and hard about when Im going to be able to make that… so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
When I first wrote Papa Hemingway there were too many people still alive and the lawyers for Random House didnt want to OK it. But now all thats been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
I love going to conventions and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldnt normally go.
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
Id like to do a romantic comedy.
Assume nobody else has any idea what theyre doing either.
Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims but the issue of Obamas personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia the worlds most populous Muslim nation.
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient not about the physician.
My moms a psychologist and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus Im just generally interested in visualization and humanity social activity and technology and what happens in aggregate.
You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love Frasier.
I always loved Sam Cooke because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel soul blues pop music.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life bearing twelve fruits and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.
When they are assailed by despair young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
After Lindbergh my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said Theres one idea Ive been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. Its Woodrow Wilson.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom if ever met another writer and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
As a kid I was always into art at the same time as computers and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them so that got me into programming.
After the war prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor as canon law at that time still permitted.
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Justice is never given it is exacted.
You cant achieve anything without getting in someones way.
We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price we can invest to produce more oil.
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ who alone is sovereign does not declare That is mine!.
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say if all else fails: take a bike ride.
You must never tire fighting Satan.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull and sharpen his discrimination though blunt and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
Im encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and theres two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
Lets just say if I werent a model Id be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas thats aching to be decorated I find it all very fascinating.
Its been a straight strip I must tell you Ive enjoyed it all the way. If Im saying things to make it sound like its hard hard work its not. Its beautiful work. Its fun work. Its everything youd ever want to do.
The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution then how would we feel? Its become a case of not knowing what youve got until its gone.
Thats a wonderful change thats taken place and so most poetry today is published if not directly by the person certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself working with his friends.
I busted my tail for so long Im just glad its getting recognized now as part of the WWE. Because lets face it the WWE is the biggest company out there when it comes to wrestling. Im just happy that Im being recognized as somebody who works hard I guess.
Dont assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about mans shortcomings his illnesses his sins but little about his potentialities his virtues his achievable aspirations
I dont jog if I die I want to be sick.
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean Im just marketing my work!
If you expect the blessings of God be kind to His people.
Im a lapsed Buddhist like Im a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Theres a couple guys that Id like to wrestle but truthfully I want to wrestle as many guys as I can.
If people watch Broad City very closely we just drop lines about people we love just to say we like them.
I do miss Battlestar the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. Its sort of like you dont know what youve got till its gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions and I love going and talking about the show.
I remember my mothers prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
Star Trek put sci-fi on the map and changed television and Battlestar has changed it in another direction by making it a little more mainstream and acceptable to people who wouldnt normally watch sci-fi.
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive to set down… some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now today.
Every day you get up and the world is changing your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
You will not accept credit that is due to another or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
As a child the paddy field was my playground.
I was a fugitive taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake to help people with a team of doctors.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
Life is what happens when youre doing other things right?
I didnt start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing and I knew that if I didnt make some changes I was going to go in the wrong direction.
I just take it one day at a time try to forget about what I did the day before. Go out there like every day is Opening Day.
Well there are other aspects I still command very good support in the party.
There are things I take sides about like capital punishment which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment and the moment you get into particular cases there is injustice in every conceivable direction. Its a mess.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
When you strengthen women you strengthen the world.
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment – how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didnt come from that experience directly it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
I would do my damn best to be more happy than not.
You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.
I’ve learned… That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.
It’s hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
The dead don’t desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.
It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.
There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.
It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that’s crap, because better isn’t quantifiable.
Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.
I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
I’m a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
It will hurt.” said Petra. “But let’s make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.
I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
I don’t want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead.
Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM and then at my first start-up.
like to believe that you don’t need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don’t go the way we might like them to, it’s a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.
The true Tarot is symbolism it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because its packed with complete proteins but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions lots of ground ginger turmeric and coriander and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
Happiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savor those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.
Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn’t it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.
I guess money can’t buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
Be happy — if you’re not even happy, what’s so good about surviving?
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.
Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Happiness wasn’t a mystical place to be reached or won–some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it–but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.
[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
People seldom refuse help if one offers it in the right way.
Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.
Its sort of my job to feel good.
Joy came always after pain.
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.
Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.
But its true when you see some television you carry it with you. Its like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then… We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within.
Your success and happiness lie in you.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas but things of the heart.
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, –will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, –or to diminish something of their pains.
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
I do not think we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say “thanks”.
Even in Siberia there is happiness.
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.
Happiness is a state of activity.
You can’t buy happiness.
Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don’t. It’s like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you’ll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Cats and I have an understanding but we choose not to interact often.
I can understand a family thats imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.
The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet and put the darn ball in the basket.
Im from New York. I have a non neutral accent. It can go any way you want.
You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling.
Happiness only real when shared.
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.
For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.