“When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 216 of 313
“Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.”
“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”
“For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.”
“The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business...I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.”
“Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.”
“There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.”
“Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.”
“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.”
“I wanted to do a war movie, a western and an alien movie. In reality, there are a lot of ugly things happening in the world.”
“When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.”
“Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?”
“If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.”
“Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.”
“The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.”
“I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.”
“The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.”
“I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.”
“A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.”
“I think when I was getting into directing, or wanting to be a director, when I was a teenager, the two films that really inspired me were Raising Arizona and Evil Dead II. And in the case of the former, I thought, "Wow. Why don't all comedies look like this?" And then as I started doing comedy, particularly when I started doing it on TV...”