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Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Everything family does is reflection on the other people.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

My life has definitely changed since 'Modern Family.' The show has made me more responsible, I really want to be a good role model for all kids so I have to think about what I say and do and how it looks to other kids!

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.