Abraham Lincoln Quotes

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren't very wealthy; they were on the fringes of society themselves.

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

I've never said I'm a communist.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

I definitely want to get in shape and be healthy again.

Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they generally do not have the marketing capabilities or budgets to build powerful global brands.

The acting training in school was great, but it was mostly fun being young and in New York. Because my upbringing was so transient, New York ended up being my home. I've been living in New York longer than I have anywhere else in my life.

I was worried about being the nut that ruined 40 years of Bond history.

If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.