Al Gore Quotes

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.

Settling other people's land is an American tradition.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

It's always good to keep people guessing.

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

The fool is often oblivious of his own gaucherie.

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

One of the most fascinating aspects of politician-watching is trying to determine to what extent any politician believes what he says.

CO₂ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.