Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
We’d go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.
I’m cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I’m where God put me.
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.
But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.
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