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When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey

Made, Rich, Big

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Best, Government, Defense

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson

Freedom, Experience, Theory

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fear, Once, Action

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.
Jean-Paul Sartre

War, May, Another

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge

Peace, Time, War

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Believing, Order, Survive

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Samuel Johnson

Politics, Walk, Unless

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson

Nature, Great, Human

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Humor, Another, Universe

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
Reinhold Niebuhr

War, May, Result

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. Rockefeller

Faith, Fight, Battle

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill

Good, Power, Others

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James A. Baldwin

Nothing, Talent, Less

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.
Henry A. Wallace

May, Country, Realize

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
Dave Barry

Travel, Rain, Thousands

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus

Men, Death, Live

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
Bette Davis

Gay, Nothing, Liberation

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley

Great, Leader, Means

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
Horace

Great, Before, Effort

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
David Seabury

Courage, Powerful, Enemy

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman

Enough, Nation, Dog

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Benito Mussolini

Nothing, State, Within

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus, Leader, Purpose

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

Fight, Why, Tell

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia

Mother, Her, Identity

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Home, Truth, Real

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
Ron Kind

Power, Gay, Long

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams

Women, Men, Vote

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