Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions.
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.