"He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living."

-- Elena Ferrante

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“I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have. â€œAny time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.”

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“I, you know, am all over the place â€” every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. â€¦ I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,â€™ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.”
“John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.”
“The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse,”
“Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers, not our production economy, not even our democratic system of government. For all of these are worthless if we lack the brain power to support and sustain them.”
“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”
“Committing to happiness increases your chances for success.”
“All three of the leaders looked like they were surprised to be asked about housing. And really none of them had anything interesting to say. And so this is something we need to push hard on to ensure that they understand that our housing crisis is really a major economic issue. It's not a social issue; it's an economic issue.”

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