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The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN. Jesse Helms
You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe. I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap. Robert Patrick
Virginia Woolf quote: "When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I..."
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. Virginia Woolf
...And the reason I am the way I am is that I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is this: You fall down. You get up. That's it. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Jose Canseco
A. A. Milne quote: "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. A. A. Milne
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. Brendan Behan
... no one could say, looking at her lined, pale and puffy face, the shapeless garish sack she had double-pinned around her, or the misfocusing eyes and slack wet mouth, that she had led the right life, and she knew it, not even with Freud's fist could she repress that... William Gass
Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle up your five senses and plunge into contemplation. While if you stick to consciousness, even though the same result is attained, you can at least flog yourself at times, and that will, at any rate, liven you up. Reactionary as it is, corporal punishment is better than nothing. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jean Cocteau quote: "I am burning myself up and will always do so."
I am burning myself up and will always do so. Jean Cocteau
For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit’s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit’s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there. Ernest Hemingway
People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming. Gwen Ifill
Stephenie Meyer quote: "Look after my heart - I've left it with you."
Look after my heart - I've left it with you. Stephenie Meyer
We all spend so much time, not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're too desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Nick Hornby
H. Rap Brown quote: "Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an..."
Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics. H. Rap Brown
I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him. Kurt Vonnegut