I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

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I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Jeffrey Donovan

I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.

Jeffrey Donovan

Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

Jeffrey Donovan

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

Jeffrey Donovan

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Jeffrey Donovan

I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

Jeffrey Donovan

As much as they'll let me I do my own stunts and I do all my own fighting.

Jeffrey Donovan

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

Jeffrey Donovan

I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.

Jeffrey Donovan

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

Jeffrey Donovan

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

Jeffrey Donovan

I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.

Jeffrey Donovan

I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.

Jeffrey Donovan

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

Jeffrey Donovan

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

Jeffrey Donovan

The most fun I've had on 'Burn Notice,' I think it would have to be working with China Chow and Lucy Lawless.

Jeffrey Donovan

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

Jeffrey Donovan

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

Jeffrey Donovan

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

Jeffrey Donovan

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

Kate Millett

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

Kate Millett

National honor is the national property of the highest value.

James Monroe

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Francois Rabelais

I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

William H. Seward

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Euripides

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Ambrose Bierce

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

John McCain

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Charles Dickens

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property.

Michael Nesmith

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Robert Dale Owen

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

Ayn Rand

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

John Ruskin

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

Johann Most

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

William H. Wharton

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.

Michael Badnarik

We are going after a targeted group of businesses that are creating opportunities for themselves using other people's property. The Internet has very little to do with this.

Hilary Rosen

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Robert Dale Owen

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

John Perry Barlow

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Tim Berners Lee

Property is theft.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Johann Most

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Garrett Hardin

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Thomas Sowell

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Johann Most

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Henri Nouwen

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Dixie Lee Ray

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Samuel Smiles