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As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president.

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

This is a frightening statistic. More people vote in 'American Idol' than in any US election.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.