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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

A man is like a cat; chase him and he will run - sit still and ignore him and he'll come purring at your feet.

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.