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Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you... You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you're the hake.

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.