"When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Ambition Quotes #Community Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I went back to Holland and I thought 'Ok, now I made so many movies in Hollywood, I know how special effects work, how to do action for not a lot of money, and I have all of these skills now.' It was something in Holland that nobody dared to touch.”
“There are many people who live with terrorism every day.”
“It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.”
“I don't say everything, but I paint everything.”
“Life is settled and I'm enjoying it.”
“If you want to be successful at being yourself, youâ€™re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.”
“Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.”
“Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity. It is no secret that when they go up, temperatures in the world's oceans trigger the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations.”

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