"We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on."

-- Robert D. Kaplan

#Giving Up Quotes #Mean Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.”

Source : Interview with Toming Jun Liu, www.wordswithoutborders.org. July 1993.
“Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility...without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed, or unhappy because of circumstances.”
“Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.”
“We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.”
“If I won the lottery,I would love to buy an airfield and populate it with enthusiasts like myself, and old airplanes.”
“I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas; and I'm also proposing to you that you can derive ideas without going through words. So I'm forcing you to really look. And this process of looking, it's like a new set of ideas that are being proposed to you.”
“I tell my kids, 'I'm your father, not your friend - but I'm also the best friend you're ever going to have because no one is going to care for you the way I care about you.'”

Source : "'Sopranos' star discusses his 'Big Daddy' rules on raising daughters" by Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2013.
“When I meet young girls, Im always like, Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because its the greatest gift I can give.”

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