We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be?