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I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.
Agent. My testimony would have been automatically suspect, even years later. I would have been a defense counsel's wet dream. As in, Special Agent, please ...
Basically, nice guys can finish last.
Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
The moon is more interesting than the unchanging sun. That is surely why it is used in poetry and the sun is not - unless ...
You can and you can't - You shall and you shan't - You will and you won't - And you will be damned if you ...
Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned ...
The price of greatness is servanthood, sacrifice and humility
A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.
There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.
I know many people who believe in God, and I expected to find Him on my way to the South Pole if he exists. My ...
The world circles us with light. Yert during every moment of life we are entirely lit from within. - The Tattooed Monk
The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required ...
The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.
She is a small woman with a face like a book mite; she is not without opinions.
Winter makes me want to rage.
Our militant union with peoples which still have to carry on an armed struggle against the colonialists constitutes an important element of our line in ...
Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.
I keep my feet candy-coated because I never know when one or both of them will wind up in my mouth.
The stunning beauty of the waning day was a stark contrast to the horrors we'd just witnessed, as if nature itself wanted to wipe away ...
I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.
I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.
I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food is ...
I want my first son to be called 'Tommy.' It will sound great, Tommy Tomlinson
The bus had a name too. Elaborately painted letters across the back declared it to be "Old but Sexy." It occurred to me that as ...
I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.
It is the perfect contradiction: It is glamorous and degenerate, cultured and crude, beautiful and detestable, ethical and decadent, exciting and scary all at the ...
Prepare for every game like you just lost your last game.
Quitting is a hiccup for losers. And down they go.
Facts were never the enemy.
As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
In dreams, through longings, we can see All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be But that will never, ever, ...
Bad days makes you stronger, those are the best days because God is talking to you. you just have to listen closely. Don't let your ...
...the past/that has a place for us will know us by our scattered wake."A History Play,Waterborne
Dear Diary,Today I met a boyHe stole my heart...And won't give it back
My heart breaks literally into a thousand tiny pieces.
I mean, when you've got someone who actually cares about you, maybe loves you, you'd have to be a real asshole to throw it away,
Atrocities, and gladly executes it. But Rahm
I tell anyone who asks me - Scholes is the best English player.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one ...
Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care. You don't have to fix it.
The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?
Learning is a profoundly important part of what makes us human. It is also something Good Old-Fashioned AI struggled with. The
Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn't landed yet
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always ...