Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.
Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.
I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given scene before they can be remotely objective.
In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.
My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.
The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.
I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
The most useful holy war is the one fought against your own passions.
A mans greatest shortcoming is that he neglects his own field and weeds that of others.
He who goes his own way does not deserve being received.
