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The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Just hold onto your faith and always be willing to put in the hard work on your own.

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.

People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

I want to have more original-screenplay Oscars than anybody who's ever lived! So much, I want to have so many that - four is enough. And do it within ten films, all right, so that when I die, they rename the original-screenplay Oscar 'the Quentin.' And everybody's down with that.

Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.

The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.

The battle we are fighting is not with each other, but that is where it stands! We need to stop fighting with each other, and change how “we” want it now! The wind is blowing and change is coming, “and only we” can change it for the good or for the bad!

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

I love African American women, but I just don't like my skin complexion.

The artificial heart is very effective as a bridge to transplant, but the number of people that can be saved with human hearts is limited. A perfect artificial heart could save many more patients.

We need to be in front of consumer trends and translate those trends into insights and foresights.