"The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families."

-- John Adams

#Foundation Quotes #Morality Quotes

“I remember on Thanksgiving all the kids wanted the drumstick. There were four of us then. Well, today you can go into the supermarket and get 12 drumsticks. Years ago you couldn't do that. So I was sucking on the neck for two years. My mother told me it was the leg, and I believed it. I went to my father and said, Why is my leg always cockeyed? He said, The bird has arthritis.”
“I never considered myself more able than anybody because I had problems just like anybody else. When I practiced, I solved problems, like any of my fellow students. I looked at my own work, and looked ahead, with blinders, almost.”
“I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.”
“Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.”
“Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.”
“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”
“I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.”
“The deepest need of humans is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of the soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.”

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