"Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily."
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"When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant."
"piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way."
"Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable."
"Never let anyone or any social attitude stand in the way of your productivity."
"Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you."
"Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information."
"Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity."
"The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned."
"If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do."
"What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in."
"Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists."
"A man of the right doesn't write in the same way as a man of the left, you can see that right away, or a woman of the right or a woman of the left."
"... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him."
"I think that when you pay tribute and are citing, not only through naming the authors but also through the acknowledgement of the form, that you are in no way plagiarizing."
"The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through."
"We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming."
"I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy."
"C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute."
"There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will."