Other Quotes

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.