"First the grub, then the morals."

-- Bertolt Brecht

#Firsts Quotes #Moral Quotes #Miscellaneous Quotes

“When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.”
“I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.”
“I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.”
“My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.”

Source : "Big Omaha 2010". Conference Interview, May 2010.
“Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin
“I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband. I'd like to continue with the action stuff, but when I get to play the father/husband role, I think that will be the time where I'm playing who I really am. I look forward to playing those kind of heroic characters, the types that are usually associated with Denzel Washington.”
“We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.”

Source : "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.

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