There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become…… — Franklin Knight Lane Copy Share Image
Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The purpose of the capital formation presentations and roundtable discussions is to create a dialogue with business leaders, economic development organizations, business… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportunity to come forth? Like the female… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought;… — Anne Sullivan Macy Copy Share Image
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At the heart of President Barack Obama's health-care plan is an insurance program funded by taxpayers, administered by Washington, and open to… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“The legacy of our Unitarian forebears is calling us back to the real purpose of the church: To walk together in the… — John Cullinan Copy Share Image
Science remains the author of our major problem, in its gift of tremendous power that has been terribly abused; but for the… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and… — David Duke Copy Share Image
People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However,… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
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Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“May our call be from this day onward, to all the creatures and beings of the planet who have no voice: I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
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