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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

Freedom with happiness is like a winter sun: it give light but no warmth.

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

In the time period before Wii was called Wii and we still referred to it as Revolution, no one thought it was going to succeed.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

I just want to be that young girl from L.A. who snowboards and gets her nails done.

Quite often, people who build big businesses don't believe anyone else can run them, and you end up with an old rascal in their 70s and no one to take them on. I could name several - and I won't - who put themselves in that invidious position.

I have found that every family has a strange remedy for any situation - from 'Use Fantastic to get the scuff off your patent leather shoes!' to 'Soak an aspirin in a glass of water to get rid of a migraine.'

It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

I have an image of Shanghai, which is quite different from other directors, I think. The story of Shanghai should happen in back alleys.

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.