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When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

– Alfred HitchcockRate it:

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

– James DeanRate it:

When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

– Adlai Ewing StevensonRate it:

When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A's efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased

– Donald Olding HebbRate it:

When an elderly speaks the wise one listen!!

– Somy blaqRate it:

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

– Hindustani ProverbRate it:

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

– Swami SivanadaRate it:

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

– Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRate it:

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

– Haniel LongRate it:

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

– Simone de BeauvoirRate it:

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

– Victor BorgeRate it:

When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already. … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’

– Adolf HitlerRate it:

When an Order misuses the Law in the context of Law and Order in a democratic state, it describes and pictures as fascism, racism, and majority dictatorship. Indeed, it mirrors the mindset of ruling power precisely.

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

When and how Muslim States and groups will become free from sectarian hegemony, killing each other for that than the welfare of the Muslim States and the people?

– Ehsan SehgalRate it:

When anger heats up it folds into fists.

– Matshona DhliwayoRate it:

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

– ConfuciusRate it:

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

– Mark TwainRate it:

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

– Thomas Jefferson, WritingsRate it:

When another blames you or hates you, or when men say anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls, penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men have this or that opinion about you.

– Marcus AureliusRate it:

When any crisis comes to challenge you: fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

– Prof.Salam Al ShereidaRate it:

When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.

– E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS TitanicRate it:

When anyone is critical of what I do, I’m just motivated by it. If someone says we’re not good enough, then we just do better. If another tennis player says something negative, I say, “That girl will never beat me.” We feed off the criticism.

– Venus WilliamsRate it:

When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so.

– RichterRate it:

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    Who said "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."?
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