When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.
[Asked what he hates most] Almásy: Ownership. I hate being owned.
A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.
I've always been a very private person.
I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
I am stable when my private life is a success.
In acting, you draw so much on your private life.
My private life has nothing to do with my films.
My private life is the most precious thing to me.
In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.
I built private sector jobs all my life.
I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.
Our private property must be sacrificed.
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private proper...
Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any traditional sense, was relegated to the private sphere with no hold over public life. There are many charms in secularism, in particular the freedom to b...
Private Joker: Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? Private Cowboy: Hey, start the cameras. This is "Vietnam - the Movie." Private Eightball: Yeah, Joker can be John Wayne. I'll be a horse. Donlon: T.H.E. Rock can be a rock. T.H.E. Rock: I'll be Ann-...
[Being told he can go home] Private Ryan: Hell, these guys deserve to go home as much as I do. They've fought just as hard. Captain Miller: Is that what I'm supposed to tell your mother when she gets another folded American flag? Private Ryan: You ca...
