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I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.