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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.