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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

You know, I have a responsibility to my team that if I'm going to be on the floor, then I have to make a difference.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?