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I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.
The sun's glow had given way to a brilliant twilight that colored the great mountains with violet and orange rivers.
My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest.
While pity shows a lack of respect for other human beings, compassion has its roots in a deep respect for others. Pity is an emotion; ...
Reassured that we all have balls, gents?" the captain quipped.Livingston glanced indicatively at the unconscious girl in the shade. "Not so reassured, captain.
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
Know that I fought Trinity, with every part of me, I fought
It's all saturated in sweat, pubes, and vegan farts!" Dennis
When Kieran turned to face him, Nathan said, 'Who says roasts are only for Sundays, eh?
The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it ...
In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of ...
The Zombeatles have made a name for themselves over the past several years by performing garage-rock parodies of classic Beatles tunes with new zombiefied lyrics.
A 15-minute gap in your day is plenty of time to write and read, but not if you check your email first.
Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [ ... ] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!
I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, ...
The student armed with information will always win the battle.
Worthwhile things never come easily
Drills are not meant to be treated as if distance matters. Instead, take time to correctly establish good patterns and habits while muscle memory to ...
So maybe my own life is not so drastic and dreadful...maybe I am just like all those other girls who have come before me with ...
The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies.
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect ...
Until there is no longer the possibility of sadness, of isolation, there can be no gravity. We all float by, rootless, taking clumsy astronaut steps ...
The very last thing the Queen needs to do before retirement is to dub Shaun Ryder an OBE. It's decided.
If we do not fight to protect and preserve the freedom our ancestors died to obtain for us, our children will die to get it ...
Good men prefer to be accountable.
Life is meaningless without Love
Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put ...
The exception does not prove the rule.
There are a lot of fun vacation spots in the universe; the bug-pits of Aylorta Five are not one of them.
Fuck me," he said, running his hand through his hair in frustration."Gladly, bend over," she shot back.
Michael Vick almost got hurt on the sideline.
Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to liberty. ...
Loving someone is waking up a little bit earlier than they do so you can pray for their day.
We're not an end-result operation. Our whole deal, why we're good, is because we're very, very focused on the process.
Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.
Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ...
The fight migjt be over but nobody wins if you both go home in body bags.
Loss will gut-punch you no matter the age of the deceased. It drops you to your knees. It shatters the dreams of your families...It brings ...
Profit is to business what breathing is to humans. Both are essential to survival, but just as breathing is not the purpose of life, so ...
Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.
That car, as with the rest of Mr. Mao's lifestyle, was brand new. He had gotten rich, and gotten rich quick. But like the rest ...
Mal Peet: "In terms of sustaining a literate and literary culture, the books we put into our children's hands are immeasurably more important than the ...
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.
You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success ...
Our Parents were gods and monsters at the same time. Maybe we're all like that- gods and monsters
Thackeray is careful not to present a protagonist who is malevolently evil from birth; to trace a figure like this is unrewarding certainly to novelist ...
Your muscles cannot get "longer" without some rather radical orthopedic surgery.
If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either. ...
I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't ...
Think of your credit score as a very primitive version of what we will see in the coming Reputation Economy; if your credit score is ...