Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
#quotes #cyrus-the-great #humanity #freedom

Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
#quotes #jack-handey #family #money

I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do. ~Sufjan Stevens
#quotes #sufjan-stevens #music

A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #truth #laughing

We learn little from victory, much from defeat. ~Japanese Proverb
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
#quotes #robert-orben #vacation #work

I tried spinning around in a chair to impress a girl. ~Ray Toro
#quotes #ray-toro

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
#quotes #ernest-hemingway #africa #travel

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
#quotes #frank-black #music #rules

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
#quotes #john-ruskin #weather

The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
#quotes #robert-zemeckis #art #thinking

There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome. ~David Belle
#quotes #david-belle #hardship

Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I am not stupid. I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. ~Sherrilyn Kenyon
#quotes #sherrilyn-kenyon #stupidity #change #xypher #acheron

Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
#quotes #bonnie-l-oscarson #christianity

Lack of resource has hanged many a person. ~Irish Proverb
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
#quotes #roger-avary #philosophy #stoicism #conscious

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
#proverbs #taoist-proverbs #mind #world

It is much more enjoyable being an actor. ~Kyle Chandler
#quotes #kyle-chandler #acting

You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
#quotes #truman-capote #people

A good husband is healthy and absent. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #marriage

I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing. ~Al Jourgensen
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Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. ~Rob Bell
#quotes #rob-bell #earth #heaven

If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear; but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a reference to him. You don't know that Vader is Luke's father, Leia is his sister; but the possibility is all there. The beauty of that movie was that it was an unfamiliar world, and yet you wanted to see it expand and to see where it went. ~J. J. Abrams
#quotes #j-j-abrams #star-wars

I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
#quotes #john-cena #children #pride