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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?