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  • Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor. -- Robert Jordan
  • I give people Ayn Rand with trappings, -- Anton Szandor LaVey
  • If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai. -- Robert Jordan
  • Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me. -- Robert A. Heinlein
  • Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man! -- Robert Jordan
  • Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read. -- Gore Vidal
  • Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories. -- Jeff Britting
  • My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not. -- Gary Johnson
  • I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. -- Clarence Thomas
  • Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf. -- Orlando Bloom
  • Clinton Cash book had been hyped by Rand Paul and Fox News as a ticking time bomb. -- Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him. -- Chris Matthews
  • Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. -- Mark McKinnon
  • The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor -- Robert Jordan
  • You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me. -- Robert Jordan
  • When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism. -- David Harsanyi
  • It's not evil, Rand. I know something evil when I smell it. This isn't evil, it's just incredibly stupid. -- Robert Jordan
  • If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. -- Mark Cuban
  • Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism. -- Paul Ryan
  • I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy. -- Ted Cruz
  • Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine. -- Rob Lowe
  • I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice. -- Chuck Schumer
  • Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share. -- Barack Obama
  • Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription. -- Murray Bookchin
  • Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve. -- Peter Fonda
  • Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collective. To understand this is to understand why we are doomed with the Federal Reserve -- Peter Fonda
  • I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more. -- Rob Zerban
  • 'Up in the Air' is not a political movie. It won't be mistaken for either a Michael Moore or Any Rand polemic on capitalism. -- Frank Rich
  • Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault. -- Paul Ryan
  • If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand. -- Paul Ryan
  • In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem. -- Jeff Britting
  • Every time [Rand Paul] opens his mouth, it gets a little crazier. Today he angrily demanded that the liberal media stop quoting him in context. -- Bill Maher
  • No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.' -Rand -- Robert Jordan
  • I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications of [her] novels. -- Murray Bookchin
  • [If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand. -- Greg Gutfeld
  • Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all. -- Gore Vidal
  • I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. -- Paul Ryan
  • Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. "I'm sorry, Yelena. I was backed into a corner and I couldn't get out without hurting someone. -- Maria V. Snyder
  • Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself -- Stephen Levine
  • Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies? -- Bill Maher
  • Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail. -- Thomas Mallon
  • Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand. -- David Davis
  • Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm. -- John McCarthy
  • Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does. -- Ilana Mercer
  • It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that. -- Robert Jordan
  • Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. -- Alan Greenspan
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  • The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy. -- Lindsey Graham
  • I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute. -- Robert Jordan
  • When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever. -- Dita Von Teese
  • ... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!' -- Nathaniel Branden
  • Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention. -- Alex Pareene
  • During the CPAC conference, Rand Paul told the crowd it was time for a new president and that people need to help make the change. Of course, most people agreed with him, since that's how term limits work. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. -- Sara Shepard
  • Rand Paul is officially running for president. He even revealed his campaign slogan, which is 'Defeat the Washington machine. Unleash the American dream.' It's hard to tell if he's running for president or doing an infomercial for Bowflex. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers. -- Gary Johnson
  • I read Rand and thought, "I want to be one of the earth movers, the scientific people who power the world. I don't want to be one of these lisping liberal artsy leeches." So I was working against my actual abilities. -- George Saunders
  • Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera." -- Jeff Britting
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  • For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now they've found it, and are thrusting at the Social Darwinist/Ayn Rand underbelly of American conservatism. -- Marvin Olasky
  • Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify. -- Barry Lynes
  • The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. -- Paul Ryan
  • I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. -- John Galt
  • I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: 'Anthem,' by Ayn Rand; '1984,' by George Orwell; or 'Brave New World,' by Aldous Huxley. -- Sara Shepard
  • It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind. -- Al Ries
  • If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online. -- Ted Cruz
  • How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?' Rand Whispered. 'The answer is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can. -- Brandon Sanderson
  • I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text". -- Kyle Cooper
  • I`m closer to anybody who believes that we should lead not from behind, but from the front. Rand Paul is one step behind, leading from behind. So, yes, even [Barack] Obama is more aggressive. Obama believes you can kill Anwar al-Awlaki without getting a court order. -- Chris Matthews
  • According to the Rand McNally Places-Rated Almanac, the best place to live in America is the city of Pittsburgh. The city of New York came in twenty-fifth. Here in New York we really don't care too much. Because we know that we could beat up their city anytime. -- David Letterman
  • Rand Paul is taking a week-long break from talking to the media to spend time with his family before he officially announces that he is running for president. Because nothing motivates you to be on the road for two straight years like a week alone with your family. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • [Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State. -- Murray Bookchin
  • I think for a lot of people, it's just where their saturation point was. Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff and the Republican stuff and the Ayn Rand followers, it doesn't let up for about half an hour. It gets hard and stays hard for a while. -- David Cross
  • Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. -- Gore Vidal
  • I've always been influenced by the human form. I'm a big fan of that Shakespeare quote. I tend to leave out the bad part of the paragon of animals quote, because I have this sort of Ayn Rand aesthetic. It was always one of those quotes that inspired me. -- Zack Snyder
  • I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17. -- Rand Paul
  • Among the most sacred gifts you can give your child is the gift of health. This gift is best given by example. Dr. Rand Olson -- Rand Olson
  • ISIL is not the JV team. I cannot stress enough that there's a terrorist army in Syria and Iraq that wants to attack the homeland and we're not doing anything about it. So how do you defeat the ideology? Build up others? You reject Rand Paul. -- Rand Paul
  • Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all. -- Theodore Sturgeon
  • Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • Whether or not you agree with Ayn Rand - and I have certain issues with some of her beliefs - the woman can tell a story. I mean, the novel as an art form is just in full florid bloom in 'Atlas Shrugged.' It's an unbelievable story. The characters are so compelling, and what she's saying is mind-expanding. -- Anne Hathaway
  • It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through. -- Daniel Ellsberg
  • Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim -- Julius Malema
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