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An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. ...
The doormat version of idiot compassion always involves allowing ourselves to feel walked all over in the name of idealizing what it means to be ...
It is not by the obvious works of evil that Satan perverts the church, but by quiet displacement and unnoticed substitution.
One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history
What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see, let's say, Drew ...
Life will throw all kinds of obstacles our way. It's our job to scramble over them and hunt for the little miracles tucked away, then ...
I can't always be afraid and run away from everything. I have to face my fears, just like I'm doing today.
I used to think that unconditional love meant loving someone who wronged me. I never thought it could mean loving someone who is not so ...
We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.
The basic responsibility of government is to maximize the welfare of its citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good'.76
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white ...
The goal of a church leader is not to do ministry for people, but rather to do ministry with people.
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to ...
Pop culture was the new religion. The era of the matinee idol was long gone. At the forefront of all things cool was the pop ...
To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to ...
I think love to another human can't be wrong in any way. And to show that by painting my nails in rainbow colours, is a ...
Never try to bear a burden of sorrow all alone when there are those who love you near at hand to share the pain!
His voice was that kind you get from smoking three packs a day and then spending all night howling at the moon.
It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before ...
I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game ...
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.
All of us insist upon our illusions, upon substituting dreams and distorted memories for the real thing.
The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.
It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God
To live in an evolutionary spirit means to engage with full ambition and without any reserve in the structure of the present, and yet to ...
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does ...
America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than ...
Imagination is the seed from which magic blooms...
I can describe myself as a leader who gives my team members opportunities to shine.
If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. ...
I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no ...
The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. ...
No one is ever too old for stories." ~ Durban Chola
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the ...
If a clothing is expensive, don't think of the cost. Think about the cost divided by the number of times you will use it. If ...
It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten ... but the hurt stays in the heart.
The first company to produce a certified two seat electric aircraft with a 1.5 hour range will dominate the aviation training market.
There has to be something we can do to undo whatever it is we have done.
A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy.
What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around.
The princess turns to him, serious. 'You are the one my great-grandfather spoke of: a denizen of Earth wearing a dirty apron who falls down ...
Always begin with the end in mind.
Never say amen in church if they'recapping off a prayer about you.
I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly 'Your Song.' People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I'm sure ...
Later, Barbara Jean would remember looking at those eyes and thinking, This must be what the sky looks like if you see it through a ...
People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for ...
Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.
Let's take the time that has been given to us and find that clock.