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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

When did it something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

I'm addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

I'm always excited to try something I haven't done.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.