1. And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.
  2. As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.
  3. But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
  4. But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
  5. I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?
  6. I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.
  7. I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.
  8. I think I made good movies.
  9. I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
  10. I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.
  11. It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.
  12. My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
  13. Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.
  14. Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
  15. You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.

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  1. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
  2. A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
  3. Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
  4. Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
  5. I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
  6. I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
  7. I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
  8. I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
  9. I passionately hate the idea of being with it I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
  10. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
  11. If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
  12. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
  13. Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
  14. Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
  15. Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
  16. Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
  17. Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
  18. The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
  19. The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
  20. The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
  21. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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  1. Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the child's background and health to assure the best fit and be prepared.
  2. And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
  3. Anything's possible in politics.
  4. But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
  5. Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
  6. Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
  7. God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there.
  8. I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.
  9. If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
  10. I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
  11. Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
  12. Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
  13. It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
  14. Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
  15. The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
  16. The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback.
  17. The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
  18. There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
  19. There's no question that jihad historically means war.
  20. Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.

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  1. Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
  2. As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
  3. Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
  4. Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
  5. Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
  6. Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
  7. For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
  8. God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
  9. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
  10. Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
  11. Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
  12. Live your life and forget your age.
  13. Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
  14. Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
  15. Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
  16. Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
  17. Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
  18. Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
  19. The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
  20. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
  21. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
  22. What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
  23. Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

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  1. Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
  2. Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
  3. I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
  4. I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
  5. I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
  6. If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
  7. If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
  8. If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
  9. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
  10. It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
  11. Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
  12. Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.
  13. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
  14. The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
  15. When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
  16. Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

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  1. Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
  2. Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
  3. How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
  4. I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
  5. I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
  6. I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
  7. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
  8. I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
  9. I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
  10. I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
  11. If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
  12. In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
  13. It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
  14. It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.
  15. My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
  16. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
  17. The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
  18. The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
  19. The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
  20. The role of art in society differs for every artist.
  21. To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
  22. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
  23. When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
  24. When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
  25. You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

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  1. A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
  2. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
  3. Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
  4. Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
  5. Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
  6. Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
  7. Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
  8. Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
  9. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
  10. Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
  11. I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
  12. Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
  13. Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
  14. Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
  15. That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
  16. The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.
  17. The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
  18. The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
  19. The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
  20. Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
  21. We are most alive when we're in love.
  22. What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
  23. Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
  24. Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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  1. A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
  2. All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
  3. Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
  4. Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
  5. I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
  6. I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
  7. I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that bubble, but as soon as the gum lost its flavor, I was back to pondering my mortality.
  8. I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
  9. I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.
  10. I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.
  11. I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.
  12. I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
  13. I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
  14. I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
  15. If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.
  16. I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
  17. I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
  18. Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
  19. My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
  20. Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
  21. The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
  22. This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
  23. Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
  24. Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

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  1. A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
  2. Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
  3. Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
  4. Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
  5. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
  6. Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
  7. I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.
  8. I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
  9. I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
  10. I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
  11. I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
  12. If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
  13. I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
  14. I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
  15. I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
  16. It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
  17. The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
  18. There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
  19. There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
  20. We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
  21. Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
  22. When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

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  1. Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment?
  2. Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
  3. Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.
  4. Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
  5. For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
  6. Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
  7. I understand the process of politics and the game of television.
  8. It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.
  9. Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
  10. The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.
  11. The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.
  12. The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney.
  13. This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
  14. We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
  15. When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

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  1. And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
  2. Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
  3. Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
  4. Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
  5. I just wish I could understand my father.
  6. I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
  7. I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
  8. Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
  9. People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
  10. The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
  11. The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
  12. The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
  13. There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
  14. Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.
  15. When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

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  1. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
  2. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
  3. Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
  4. Film spectators are quiet vampires.
  5. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
  6. I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
  7. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
  8. I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
  9. It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
  10. Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
  11. Love cannot save you from your own fate.
  12. Music inflames temperament.
  13. People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
  14. Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
  15. Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
  16. The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
  17. The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
  18. This is the strangest life I've ever known.
  19. We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
  20. When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

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  1. A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
  2. All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
  3. Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
  4. I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
  5. I left school on my 15th birthday.
  6. I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
  7. I love learning new techniques.
  8. I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
  9. If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
  10. I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
  11. In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
  12. It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
  13. It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
  14. London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
  15. Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
  16. The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
  17. The skull is nature's sculpture.
  18. The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
  19. To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
  20. When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go home. For me, it has to be continuous.

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  1. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
  2. Be obscure clearly.
  3. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
  4. English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
  5. Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
  6. Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
  7. I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
  8. I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
  9. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
  10. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
  11. Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
  12. Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
  13. Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
  14. The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
  15. The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
  16. The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
  17. To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
  18. Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
  19. When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
  20. Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
  21. Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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  1. An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
  2. But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.
  3. Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
  4. Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.
  5. He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
  6. I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
  7. I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.
  8. I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
  9. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.
  10. I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
  11. If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.
  12. If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
  13. In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
  14. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
  15. My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
  16. My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
  17. The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.
  18. There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.
  19. There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.
  20. This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
  21. War is at its best barbarism.
  22. War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
  23. War is hell.
  24. War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.
  25. War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.
  26. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

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