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(On John Wayne`s 1971 interview with Playboy magazine) That doesn`t need a reply, it`s self-evident. You can`t even get mad at it; it`s so insane that there`s just nothing to say about it. He would be, according to his point of view, someone not disposed to returning any of the colonial possessions in Africa or Asia to their rightful owners. He would be sharing a perspective with B.J. Vorster if he were in South Africa. He would be on the side of Ian Smith. He would have shot down Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), called him a rabble rouser. The only freedom fighters he would recognize would be those who were fighting Communists; if they were fighting to get out from under colonial rule, he`d call them terrorists. The Indians today he`d call agitators, terrorists, who knows? If John Wayne ran for President, he would get a great following ... I think he`s been enormously instrumental in perpetuating this view of the Indian as a savage, ferocious, destructive force. He`s made us believe things about the Indian that were never true and perpetuated the myth about how wonderful the frontiersmen were and how decent and honorable we all were.

- Marlon Brando

She owns some of Hollywood`s stars` most priceless possessions (Louis Armstrong`s bongo drums among others). She also has a collection of vintage Hollywood costumes, including Russ Tamblyn`s jacket from West Side Story (1961), Leslie Caron`s dress from An American in Paris (1951), Claudette Colbert`s gown from It Happened One Night (1934), Olivia de Havilland`s blouse from Gone with the Wind (1939), and Sandra Dee`s bikini from the "Tammy movies".

- Winona Ryder

(On giving up material possessions and shedding 30 pounds for The Pianist (2002)) "There`s no comparison to what Wladyslaw Szpilman went through and the suffering that people during the Holocaust, or nations afflicted with famine are going through, but it gave me a much greater understanding of that. And you can`t act that. I take the work very seriously."

- Adrien Brody

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

- Tony Shalhoub

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

- Albert Einstein

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

- Anaïs Nin

It`s time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

- Bill Nelson

You know, when you look at that, yeah, you have to win. But I think our guys gave everything they had (Thursday). They were diving on the floor to save possessions.

- Mike Miller

Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person`s avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again.

- Russell Watson

People who get through life dependent on other people`s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

- Ben Elton

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

- Natalie Barney

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

cover personal possessions at a reasonable price to repair, or at their actual cash value.

- David Dixon

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It`s the reverse of the West.

- Gary Wright

In poverty, people are possessions. In the middle class, possessions means things,

- Jody Williams

We just got sloppy I thought, myself included. We were technically sloppy all over the field. Possessions where we had a chance to go forward we gave to them and lost out on opportunities.

- Chris Albright

We had just about everything people who had lost their home and personal possessions would need. And it all came from the people in Payson; they are the real heroes in all this, not us.

- Butch Klein

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

- Sitting Bull

In our rich consumers` civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

- Max Lerner

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

- Al Becker

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

- Alan Curry

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Alberto Santos Dumont

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

- Alice Rivlin

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

- Amy Cooper

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

- Amy Cooper

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

- Amy Cooper

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

- Amy Koenning

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

- Andrea Harris

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

- Andrew Bozoian

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

- Andrew Karmen

(When his illness inspired him to sort through his possessions, to prepare for a fate he was hoping to fight off, Chironna found a photo of himself and Morrison that Weis had signed.) Thank you for your guidance, advice, teaching and friendship, ... Thank you for helping me to build character and become a better person. Without you, I would never have attained my goals. Hopefully, one day, I will be able to better show my gratitude.

- Antarrious Williams

We just had some poor possessions offensively down the stretch. The last four, five possessions, we didn`t have to make a big play, we just had to make normal plays, and we didn`t come up with it.

- Anton Pil

We didn`t execute down the stretch. We didn`t rebound during key possessions and that cost us the game.

- Armon Gilliam

We have to make it a defensive game every time we turn around, that`s the Big East. You`ve got to take advantage of your possessions.

- Barbara Ward

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.

- Albert Einstein

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

- Rabindranath Tagore

FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America`s most precious discoveries and possessions.

- Ambrose Bierce

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Elizabeth I

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

- Bias
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