I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
Well, we didn’t have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
I felt that if there wasn’t going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.
The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, , the print the performance.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you’re inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you’ve never seen before. If they do, I’m still looking for it.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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