President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat.
It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
I've never been a materialist; I've never been somebody who believes in only what we can see and measure. I continue to be a student of religious philosophy, and I continue to take those ideas very seriously.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before.
The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.
It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured.
The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.
No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.
Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.
The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself.
Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.
While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets.
Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
