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A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.

I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.

I think the greatest threat to the privacy of Americans is the drone, and the use of the drone and the very few regulations that are on it today.

When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.

Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.

Death gotta be easy cause life is hard

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.

Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

Commitment to great causes makes great men.

I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible