"Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original."

-- John Dryden

#Matter Quotes #Inquiring Quotes #Imitation Quotes

“Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at reality and playing fast and loose with it.”
“This god, this one word: I.”
“I'm independent so I have the freedom to drop music whenever I want to. I strategically plan everything. I'm a Capricorn, so I'm a planner. I work very hard, but I'm a planner at the same time. I've just been stock piling all this time waiting for the right opportunity to put out music. With me being locked up to a contract, it took years for everything to pass.”
“It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by by Leon Goldensohn, ed. by Robert Gellately, p. 166, 2004.
“Dad, I left my heart up there.”

Source : Francis Gary Powers, Curt Gentry (2004). “Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident”, p.4, Potomac Books, Inc.
“That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.”
“If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.”
“Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential ... the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward. The greatest we can earn. Granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ayn Rand". "The Passion of Ayn Rand", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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