#lie

Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#i #lied #like #lying #magic

In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#behind #believed #coming #days #decision

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#biggest #biggest problem #ego #faces #finding

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#be happy #believe #charity #effectively #give

I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process. ↗

— James Daly

#earlier #i #i think #integrate #magazine

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#believe #easy #say #saying #then

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. ↗

— Matt Damon

#became #become #career #earlier #focus

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#freedom #hated #loved #never #who

I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#decades #every #every time #good #hire

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#back #burden #challenger #elsewhere #inverted