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If you want a revolution/grow a new mind/and do it quietly if you can
Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it is ...
A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life." - Orrin Woodward
"Parisienne" is about how you forge a life in a new place when you are 18. And it's about a Lebanese girl who discovers Paris ...
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
We don't know what we don't know.
Perhaps Americans should recognize that if they want to keep their privacy, they should ask the federal government to do only the things that the ...
Horror is best written in the dark.
That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52)
Compliment others when you truly mean it....not when you want something in return".
I believe, my lady, that life is the phantom, and love still more fleeting and elusive - here one minute like a sweet scent you ...
When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.
Comparing John to James is like comparing a racehorse to a jackass.
You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to ...
...he could feel hot tears coming to his eyes as the image of that night, outside the house as the November wind blew black leaves ...
There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.
I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
History was once the future, the future will create history.
Each of us has a unique perspective on the world around us, an inner eye that has more to do with how we think than ...
There is more in there than those trifles. There is the wild, beating heart of an artist, dancing at the cage of your chest and ...
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
I love to travel, don't like the getting there 'planes' but love it when I arrive.
Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, ...
Come on, somebody be brave.
The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.
The past is blind. The future is unwanting. All you need is in front of you.
The United States, despite an active ideology that preaches equality, in fact has the most unequal distribution of wealth of any industrialized nation (Philips, 1988). ...
Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give ...
When you get in a snit, don't hit
Who the hell cares about what anybody else thinks? Just look into your heart and do whatever the hell makes you happy.
I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases ...
I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.
Rules don't count when the dream is big enough.
It is virtually impossible to create and sustain over time conditions for productive learning for students when they do not exist for teachers.-Seymour Sarason
I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.
He loved words, and he would admit that he was playing with them all the time. He was obsessive about the rhythm of the sentence, ...
All major religious traditions accept that suffering and death are simply part of life. The deep radicalism of humanitarian action is its belief that people ...
Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.
No cross, no Christian
I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and ...
Just so you know, every part of my body is calling me a 'dickhead' right now and trying to revolt against me.
We are in the process of destroying an entire society. It is as simple and terrifying as that. It is illegal and immoral.
Can a criminal, using the knowledge of forensic science to his own advantage, reduce his percentage of detection in order to commit the perfect murder? ...
Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery.
Life stinks, but I love it so.
Drinking is fine in moderation, I just can't see the point.
Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer.
Being likeable isn't just about social media or business - it's about living life, to its fullest.
Professional learning does not advance ... through the inexorable confirmation of previous certainties, but through a systematic challenge to our present conceptions
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.