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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves...

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Big Brother is watching you.

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively...

I remember when I was a youth-team player, fans putting money in buckets at the Winter Gardens.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

I respect people's feelings when they say they love me, but it is completely their choice of expression, and I am alien to it. People have a right to express, but that's it.

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of...

I modeled myself after Deborah Kerr for her romantic, untouched quality; Ingrid Bergman for her strength; and Kay Kendall for her wonderful sense of humor.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

'The Santa Claus' with Tim Allen, I watch it in July. I think he's so funny.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I knew nothing of American History because I didn't pay attention to American History in school. Because I did not see myself in American History in school.

Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved...

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

What we really wanted to call it was 'I Rhoda Book.'