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Ayn Rand Quotes

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Life Love Live Man My Life Never

I own motorized bar stools.

I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool to prepare for the worst. By envisioning it in an artistic context, you can make sense of it before and after it happens.

John Cameron Mitchell

Art People Road You Worst Prepare

Perhaps all of us have come to rely too deeply on machinery and software to be our allies without wondering about the cost: the way technology doesn't fix problems without creating new ones.

Technology Problems Creating New Way

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

Time Yourself You Expect Take Your

'Funny Games' was conceived as a provocation. My other films are different. If people feel my other films are, or respond to them as provocation, then that's quite different. 'Funny Games' is the only one of mine where my intention was to provoke the audience.

Funny People Feel Intention Games

I'd like to be the next Oprah financially, but I'm not a TV actor. I'm not someone with an entertainment background, I'm a cop. And I'm not afraid to go anywhere and get down and dirty.

Someone Dirty Down Go Actor Afraid

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

Good Blessed Voice Enough Back Just

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

War Run Eat Out Been Would

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

World More Human Us One Thing Than

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Love Me Play First Dying Piano

I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

Life Book Long Kind Same Books

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.

Future Today World Look Important

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