“The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.”
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“I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it's the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It's the greatest brand. It's as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It's the Super Bowl.”
“The great hope of society is in individual character.”
“I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.”
“In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.”
“I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.”
“I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.”
“I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.”
“To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.”
“It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
“What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.”
“Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.”
“We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.”
“There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.”
“I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.”
“I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.”
“I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.”
“Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.”
“I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.”
“At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.”
“We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.”
“I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.”
“In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.”
“I hope by the time I'm 30 to have a husband and maybe a baby.”