Doe Quotes
Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.
Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.
I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.
If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.
Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.
The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.
As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least, this is the model you are using.
I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.
When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.
Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.
A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.
The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.
I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.” “Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.” “So does mental illness.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does.
Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.
Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.
Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.