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Compared to relationships, events and programs make me think of ice skates gliding across ice. Relationships make me think of gum on the bottom of ...
Shannon used a phrase he had never used before: information theory.
By definition, fifty percent of every large group that let's anyone join is below average.
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
I wish I could say I was a victim but I willingly played into the devil's hands. My reasons weren't always right and my justifications ...
You're lucky. You're getting this over with now. You only fall in love for the first time once.""That's very Taylor Swift of you," I say.
After he tipped his hat and left, Jillian watched him stride down the hallway. Yeah, Big-brotherly overprotection aside, fortysomething looked good on the police captain ...
That memory is so crushingwhy write me lettersI already know.
Where ever fear shadows ... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.
I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.
While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: ...
Words I write... go through my mind, like tasting fine wine on the lips.
If man sees hazard as a misfortune rather than an opportunity, he will seek to close the door to freedom rather than keep it open.
It. I once read in some fantasy book about a phylactery, a place or an object where a creature can hide its soul, protecting it ...
Be mindful that you may have inadvertently upset those who speak harshly to you. Know also that they may simply be complete arseholes.
The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been ...
When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.
How do you get beyond the self-doubt and indecision? How do you find the truth?" "You can never know for sure, Dors, you just choose ...
When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax.
Aren't you going to insist that we pray, Gerry?' the Captain asked as he took a bite. 'This food doesn't deserve to be blessed,' the ...
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
Dependence on the pastor turns the church inward instead of keeping its focus on reaching out. Everyone knows that the addition of more people threatens ...
Several issues in image georeferencing remain unexplored.
An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call any-thing a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens ...
I don't need to be dead to see something like that. Besides, I know you pretty well by now. You better slow down before you ...
Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are ...
The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
On the contrary, what is hidden from the learned and clever is often revealed to the merest children.
I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able ...
God did not hear the prayers of the fearful, for the hearts of the fearful held no belief.
Bezos does not fear plunging prices for storage and computing cycles; he wants to be the guy who leads it there!
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.
As a child I had been taught to say my prayers at the start of every day, and so it did not seem an odd ...
Sometimes, the best thing we can change about a situation is our perspective.
Your attitude in life, determines your perception on life.
I've been lucky enough to primarily work for myself over the years.
Fuck em if they can't take a joke
Anxious, depressed, psychotic, lunatic, bipolar, manic - you name it, I attract it. Perhaps you've heard of me? In some circles I am known as ...
I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its community, ...
I am not a scary movie/book kind of gal.
I live in a mixed marriage. I'm a girl. He's a boy...
As William Ferris is fond of saying, "in Africa when an older person dies, a library burns.
How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?
And you can't miss what you don't know. Except . . ." I lean forward so that I'm facing her. "What if we were wrong?
For an acrobat, the acting concepts of 'risk', 'a life or death situation' and 'trusting your partner' are visceral. If an actor loses focus, the ...
To find inner peace and happiness, you need to exercise
You know, I've never asked why it doesn't offend your feminist principles for me to carry this beast for you."I look at it as exploiting ...
The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.
A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which ...
Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.