It is preoccupation with possessions more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art and can become art but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them poisoned.
James Arthur Baldwin
I do get recognized but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
J. K. Rowling
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I played comedies and dramas.
William Shatner
We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful just as strong just as well-funded.
Barack Obama
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly to use the expression 'Make America great again.'
Donald Trump
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were I should be quite ready to dictate.
Winston Churchill
