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Ayn Rand Quotes

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Ayn Rand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Yourself Greatness Waiting Heaven Us

I love doing both theater and television.

Andrew Rannells

Love Doing Television Theater Both

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

Anderson Cooper

War Afghanistan

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

Max von Sydow

Theatre You Television Country Movie

Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.

Robert Kennedy

Philosophy Young Crime Confusion

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Anish Kapoor

Freedom Artist Seems Liberation Ways

On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.

Stephen Kinzer

President First Victim Prime June

My mother is getting up there in age, and sometimes I go visit her in Florida. I cook for all of her friends. Sometimes I have to avoid the table because I do not want to hear what they're talking about.

Romany Malco

Mother Age Friends Talking Table Go

I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I'm the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays.

Mary Pilon

Family Love Memories People Me You

In order to do something really good, you have to take risks - that's what I do.

Juergen Teller

Good Risks You Order Take Something

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

Nature Weakness Human Nature Human

When our son's autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didn't even know if he'd ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Work Son Age People Learn Know

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

Bruce Springsteen

Life Family Music Children Wife You