#ought

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#am #belief #brought #common #common sense

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#became #big #big star #films #goal

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#brought #business #christian #christian home #highlight

I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#allowed #certain #certainly #consider #encouraged

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#been #between #divorce #doing #line

Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#bondage #external #influences #internal #negative

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#look #movie #process #thought #thought process

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#always #even #how #i #i always

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#by the people #contest #get #good #helped

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#being #bought #carry #chances #enjoying