Ayn Rand Quotes

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Ayn Rand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982

Topics

LifeIntegrityHappinessLoyalty

Every now and again, you just gotta hit something. Not someone - something.

Jillian Michaels

SomeoneYouNowSomethingJustHit

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

JoBeth Williams

BabyLawyerPlayClockSomething

I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LearningWritingReadingLanguage

So, I don't work in terms of real time. I don't work in a timely fashion.

John Irving

WorkTimeFashionRealTimelyTerms

People often ask me why I choose to primarily play queer characters, and my answer is that as a queer man, I choose to align myself with projects in which I can be of service for a purpose greater than myself: to be for an audience of queer people of color, something I didn't have the privilege of seeing as a young man.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

MyselfServiceManPurposePeople

It's the subconcussive hits, the constant bam, bam, bam that linemen like Suh give and receive. Those are the hits scientists say cause the lasting damage to the brain, the kind of injuries that made guys like Mike Webster, Terry Long, and so many others go crazy. The subconcussive hits - every single play.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

CrazyBrainInjuriesLongPlayKind

I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career.

Miranda Otto

MyselfCareerPlayLuckyBeenMost

I learned how to horseback ride in English style, which is very hard, by the way. I had no idea how challenging it was. I've always ridden horses, but Western is like riding a horse in a rocking chair, as opposed to English, where you have to balance and hold on with your legs.

Minka Kelly

StyleRideBalanceHorseChairYou

I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

Chris Gardner

TodayDinnerGrowConversationUp

The way I like to play, it really helps when I have more people around me to combine with.

David Silva

PeopleMePlayWayMoreLike

Rihanna told me her parents used to argue so intensely, she used to get these headaches, these migraines that were almost not even treatable with medicine. The moment her parents separated, her migraines went away.

Tyra Banks

MomentParentsMeMedicineSheHer

Whatever your religious tradition is, if it's important to you and you don't feel comfortable talking about it, you end up coming across as insincere.

Tim Kaine

EndFeelTraditionTalkingYouUp

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