Doe Quotes - Page 173

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

It's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Black does not appear in the rainbow of hope.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place , a warm person. It exists, I know it does

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

Charles Chaplin makes a million dollars a year out of a funny, shuffling walk and a pair of baggy trousers, because he does "something different." Take the hint and "individualize" yourself with some distinctive idea.

The world does not pay men for that which they “know”. It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

That wasn't me. I'm not a morning person. There's another person inside of me that does all the morning things.

Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals.

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.

A foreclosure does not define you financially.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.