180 K Motivational Quotes

Any type of audition will be posted in trade magazines.

Any types of audition will be posted in trade magazines.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

There is science, logic, and reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, and dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

For myself, I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, and spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Grown men do not need leaders.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

If the end does not justify the means – what can?

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages – as if the savages weren’t dangerous enough already.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

No one uses a ribbon typewriter anymore, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, an indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

It’s been a long time since I’ve written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I’m hoping it’s like riding a bicycle.

It’s possible to become so comfortable with one’s style and structure that one ceases to grow.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two because the reader has made a different commitment.

Once you’ve invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story’s grown to around a half-million words and can’t be written as anything less than a trilogy.

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

When I have an idea, it goes from a vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

The money can be decent, but I really don’t recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

I’m dense when it comes to discouragement.

I’m one of those writers who, when writing, believes she’s god and that she hasn’t bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

I’m one of those writers who, when writing, believes she’s god and that she hasn’t bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense, there are no surprises in any of my books.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th-century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I’ve never been able to sell. I’m known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping to genre.

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself.

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I’m dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

I write sets of books, but I’ve also written a lot of orphans.

I’m a writer first and an editor second… or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don’t claim to have all of them at my command.

I’m always trolling for trivia.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

I’m not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

The camera is no longer an instrument of preservation, the image is.

Ideas aren’t magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

If you write, one of the questions you’re always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.

Photography helps people to see.

Does not the very word ‘creative’ mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act – rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life – not death.

I didn’t decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

That’s why so many stars are taking pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I have been in a great traffic jam.

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

Well, I always had a chauffeur, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can’t drive.

Sitting at home the way I do, I’d just love the hear from people. It’d be a great help in passing the time.

They disallowed this and disallowed that, and now I can’t even get my head above water!

They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven’t seen any of them around lately.

Now, on the St. Louis team, we have Who’s on first, What’s on second, and I Don’t Know is on third.

You never heard of a comedy team that didn’t fight, did you?

Once they get their hooks into you, you’re a dead pigeon.

You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run – will not try to escape.

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

To be in prison so long, it’s difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

When I’m forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it’s all I can do to refrain from attack.

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

I’ve wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations – the atmospheric pressure, you might say – of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent – something like an infant – deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

War is the science of destruction.

‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’

Every man’s ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

The highest qualities of character… must be earned.

Patience is passion tamed.

I cannot harness a horse. I am afraid of a cow.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice but as yet unstained.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; and that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

Virgin Records will probably release its own package sometime next year.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes – a virtuous cycle of change.

There are many talented people.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I’ve been writing songs for other artists.

If I decide to tour, I definitely would come to Washington, D.C. We’ll see.

If they’re singing about heartbreak, they’ve lived it.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

When you go to meetings or auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. It is simple but true.

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

There is love there. And then there are times when I can’t even stomach Simon. You don’t have to sit next to him. That’s all I have to say.

I’m still my parents’ child, I’m still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance, and always trust your gut.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

The more auditions you go on, the more you will learn not to take it personally.

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.

I’m working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy.

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

When people expect me to go right, I’ll go left. I’m unpredictable.

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?

I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

I’m happily single.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

I signed on with Disney to star and choreograph an original film.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

I can’t wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.

Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.

Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.

Any type of audition will be posted in trade magazines.

American Idol has taken over my whole life.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

All you can do is the best you can do.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He’s from England, he’s angry and he’s got Mad Power Disease.

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

I’m grateful this ordeal is over, and I’m so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

I’m not going to disappear.

In athletics, there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature.

My choice of Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

Michael Jordan Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually, they make the difference between winning and losing.

I wanted to play baseball!

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professional.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

I think someone should explain to the child that it’s OK to make mistakes. That’s how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

As brilliant an individual as Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Your mind is what makes everything else work.

I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

My eyes, and my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Center is a very tough position to play.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

One man can be a crucial ingredient in a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievements for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

On record dates like that, I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

You can’t win if you don’t play as a unit.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That’s a terrible burden.

The transition was difficult. It’s hard to stop something that you’ve enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

The game has basically not changed since I ended my career.

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

I didn’t really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

As brilliant an individual as Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got into a good team unit.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

I don’t remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

Photography, alone in the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.

I don’t remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I’ll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can’t stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don’t think so much like that.

Motivational Quotes

Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.

The stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Certainly, our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can’t leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.

You’re just sort of searching for this “thing” and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don’t. All music is imperfect, but in jazz, since you’re improvising, at least the way I play, I’m trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals, but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man’s general destiny.

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on a heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Bring on your tear gas, your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers, and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain’t going to be turned around.

Land in Hawaii is money. What I’m talking about here is ceded land – land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.

You’re talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year.

When there wasn’t any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.

There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.

So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who’s really going to administer this stuff.

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, “Why are we doing this? Why don’t the Hawaiians have control?” “Well, we have no mechanism to do it,” I was told.

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state’s collecting lease money because all of a sudden “worthless” land now has an airport on it.

So there’s always been this clash between what is the public good – that which belongs to all of us in common – and what can be exploited for a private interest.

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is to protect everything all the time.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest change in history.

You may be assured that we won’t ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

Our forces will not be on the sidelines.

It’s clear to me now that we’ve got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

It’s also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the… as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

Oh, the transition concerns me because as we move towards an important political event, it’s clear to me that the terrorists and insurgents will move as hard as they can to disrupt this process.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there’ll be additional violence.

Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself.

We’ve got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

I fight fairly and in good faith.

Well, the reports are correct that we’re conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation.

But clearly, the fact that we’ve gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it’s not enough.

Bring on your tear gas, your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain’t going to be turned around.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it’s not just Zarqawi.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

But all that having been said, you can’t, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can’t be in all places at all times.

I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country – but it’s controllable, it’s workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people.

But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate.

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that someday somebody’s going to knock on your door and it’s going to be your last.

But the truth of the matter is that there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

Clearly, the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get… to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

I think you also understand that one of the key things that’s got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

Traditional matter must be glorified since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that’s exactly where they belong. Connery’s one.

Motivational Quotes

I’m not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

Milos said, You’re my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn’t pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I’m busy painting my kitchen.

People desire power. I don’t know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn’t answer the phone.

I’m just having a wonderful time. It’s an interesting thing that I’m very comfortable with this material and I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because I did MacBeth.

The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel – that’s all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.

If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers’ kids in there to fight and die.

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That’s Sean Connery! I don’t know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

Whenever there were parties, I wasn’t invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I’ve worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

I don’t want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is a way to do it.

With Dick Smith there and the words of Peter Shaffer… they’ve got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words… What more can you ask for?

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

All the stuff that you visualized was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

All the stuff that you visualized was going to work so beautifully, that you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don’t know if you’d call him a great actor, but he’s amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

I acted my heart out.

I’m a very proud actor.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don’t want to see any more of that.

I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

I love parties. I love a good time.

I really like to experiment. That’s the only way I can work. It’s instinctive.

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

I’d like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I’ll go with him. I can’t think of anything better than to die in place ‘s just beginning their lives.

I’d like President Bush to think maybe there’s another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

I always wondered what hearing one’s own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

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