Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
My dream is to one day own a country house on the shore in England, have gotten married, wipe some debt off and get a few more good films.
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
We're Americans. We shape our own future. Let's start by standing up for President Barack Obama.
My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.
True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because it is not something we should practice to accrue future benefits.
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.
Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
