Doe Quotes - Page 425

A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.

I'm sure everyone feels this way, but it's hard to have a proper opinion of yourself or how things are or how you expected them to be or how far removed they are from how you expect them to be. On the one hand, you're extraordinarily grateful and terribly excited, but on the other, I stop and go, "I wonder what the future does hold."

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we can never answer: it only asks for more information and generates more questions.

Presidential leadership is a really tough job, does come not easily.

The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.

An author departs; he does not die.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

Millions of Americans have paid into social security and deserve their full benefits. Pure and simple, Republicans are manufacturing a social security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle social security.

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

With Robert De Niro, you're thinking, suddenly he'll do something you don't expect, or he appears and he's kind of slow to get there but then he gets there in a way that nobody does. Everybody is just really, extremely different.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

...still I dinna expect anything to happen to me. But if it should...If it does, then I want there to be a place for you; I want someone for you to go to if I am...not there to care for you. If it canna be me, then I would have it be a man who loves you.

......what I was born does not matter, only what I will make of myself, only what I will become.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.