Doe Quotes - Page 229

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of time, on one level corrupts and on another level does not. But I think, no matter what, mutates.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news.

With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

I've always looked to other women for inspiration and kicks. When a woman stands up and does her thing, it never ceases to excite and inspire me.

I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.

There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for him to perceive; if it is not of this world that he is conscious, then he is not conscious at all

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions.