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I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

The new limitations are the human ones of perception.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air.

I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's why I don't live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.