Famous Quotes: Why

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
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Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
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I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.
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In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
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I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
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The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
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I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.
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I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
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Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.
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Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
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Education is the art of making man ethical.
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I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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