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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

When you say something is very different to a core base that expects heavy music from you or very aggressive music, everybody tends to go, 'Oh, they're gonna get mellow, they're gonna get soft.'

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.