I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
If they respect you, respect them. if they disrespect you, still respect them. Do not allow the actions of others define you. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just… — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes… — Melissa Rauch Copy Share Image
The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I have a lot of faith in President Obama. The thing that seems to be true of him is that he doesn't… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
The most lasting reputation I have is for an almost ferocious aggressiveness, when in fact I am amiable, indulgent, affectionate, shy and… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book,… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have… — Shirley Conran Copy Share Image
I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are… — Seth Copy Share Image
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Healthy character of wealthy mind living in the worthy heart of the earthy man always mentions the name of the author on… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[On acupuncture:] The needles are small and won't hurt at all. In fact, they'll feel good. Ha, ha! Just kidding. They feel… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Welcome to prekindergarten! You will not die if you discover that there are more lines out there than just your own. In… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image