The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Recitation: by Male by Female
Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.
Angus Deaton
BusinessThinkDoingBadLobbying
They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.
Steve Lacy
MeGoKindProductionCallBefore
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.
Tom Daschle
LeaderPeopleWorldNationOwnUsed
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
SocietyTroublemakersDownhillGoes
'Waiting for Godot,' when it first came out in 1950, was a very different sort of play to the plays that were in the West End at that time in London, because most of those plays were what we call drawing-room comedies.
Roger Rees
TimeWaitingEndPlayLondonFirst
When you have a disability, people think you are weak. They think they can prey on you.
RJ Mitte
PeopleThinkYouDisabilityWeak
Acquaintance with the human kingdom is limited: between death and a new birth - and this begins immediately or soon after death - the soul has contact and can make links only with those human souls, whether still living on earth or in yonder world, with whom he has already been karmically connected on earth in the last or in an earlier incarnation.
Rudolf Steiner
SoulDeathWorldEarthNewLiving
America used to be proud of abstraction, and we have fallen away from it. The future depends on people trying to promote that abstract thinking. Not just in relation to music and jazz and the arts, but the economy, social strife, tension between people.
Jason Moran
FutureMusicPeopleProudThinking
I've always said from starting off, 'I don't mind if I'm in a big budget film or a huge play or something small in London playing for 50 people, as long as I'm doing what I love doing for a living.'
Dominic Sherwood
LovePeopleMindSmallDoingPlay
We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.
Dick Cheney
MomentSkyPeopleWorldResultYou
I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere.
Christopher Moore
MeBraveThinkSpiritWriteMust
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, 'Don't read, don't think, just write,' and the result could be a mountain of drivel.
Alice Munro
MountainThinkResultYouToo Much
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