#her

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#excel #excellent #extent #had #i

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#beings #empress #i #i am #i write

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#anymore #because #character #character actor #doors

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#character #character development #development #get #how

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans. ↗

— Tom Harkin

#compensates #costs #debt #further #increasing

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#fell #gave #i #know #life

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#basis #cultural #does #experience #experiences

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make. ↗

— Wilson Greatbatch

#could #country #department #dollars #energy

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#get #god #heart #hollow #legal

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year. ↗

— Adolph Green

#come #did #inside #last #last year