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As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.
I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943. Syria never - Syria never have recognized Lebanon. They regard Lebanon as part of Syria.
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'
Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because for directors it's the purest way to tell a story. It's about creating images that tell a story and you don't need dialogue for that.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
You cannot build an empire on a graveyard. The ghosts of the past will it down.
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
I believe I'm better looking as a dude than a girl.
I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.
