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DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

When you sit back and you just do what you love, things happen

He began to walk into the pottery, which had been the dairy. He knew enough about the evil-tempered to know that you had to walk ...

I've changed my mind. I don't want to be a squirrel any more. I'd rather be a bird!

Sprinkled salt in a line ringing Kelsie's bed first, then grabbed candles from a box in the closet. They weren't the kind I had in ...

I never really was much of a practical jokester or anything.

Why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:

What thou lovest well remains,

Never give up on your dreams, without them life is just an existence.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with ...

She no longer longed to be anyone more or less than who she was.

For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are ...

The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or ...

With younger children the greatest reward is to be able to pass on to a new stage in each subject. It is a punishment to ...

I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

Only the present counts.

Cynda and her current crazy boyfriend. This one was a nude painter. He didn't paint nudes, he painted in the nude.

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

You definitely get more of a band feel to a song if you've been playing a song live a bunch.

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

Two rights and three lefts later,

How to deal with problems in life. They are never asked for, but how we deal with them defines our future happiness or unhappiness.

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

If I don't do this film. I'll be acting in corsets for the next 20 years.

The Spirit's work of making the gospel real to the heart weakens the self-centeredness in the soul.

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a ...

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

Being in love isn't the only way of loving. I realized with all my being that if you loved somebody- it didn't matter who it ...

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable ...

You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on ...

If the content is sufficiently engrossing, however, you don't need wraparound deep-immersion goggles to shut out the world. You grow your own. You are there. ...

Training prepares you for a job; an education prepares you for life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Diets are a fool's errand. I eat something sweet every day, whether it's chocolate or a cookie. If I don't, I guarantee you that there's ...

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were ...

Change attitude to change the altitude of life.

The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world ... you can come to only one conclusion: we have the most ...

Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some ...

The death of the MG marks the end of one of the most perfect products of free enterprise, born out of the voracious will to ...

Not everything is a love story.

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

You have to stick to your guns for what your vision is.

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the ...

Be your own guide, follow your own movement.

There are other writers whose work is connected with everyday life and with the history of the people. And this doesn't mean they have any ...

All you need is coffee, some cigarettes, and a Twitter account and your writing career begins! How far you go is determined by the followers ...

Every day you make a choice either to sow some of your seed or to eat it. When you exercise faith and sow, you release ...

I find myself crying unabashedly, then I try to suck it in, realizing this is inappropriate.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.

Suddenly it was cool to have your hair lank ... It was a whole different way of looking at things, and it shook up the ...

It was while starting my business that I saw my first glimpse of government's impact on business.

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who ...

Knowing things will not harm you. Doing them is a different matter. What you know will be a protection. What you do ruins - if ...

Wandering aimlessly, broken by my thoughts,Which slowly sharpened daggers at my heart

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I ...

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

His thoughts were clearly still shoving him further away, toward some ultimate dark drama that he might or might not have actually lived through but ...

We sang in church "Tata Nzolo"! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how you sing it, and that ...

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and ...

I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the ...

Let your light shine, never look back and live as if today is your last day ... because it just might be.

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind ...

Your inner knowledge of yourself is what matters

All communication must lead to change

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

I prefer to work with first-time directors.

When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.

Within his temples felt thoughts not of woman's looks, but of stellar aspects and the configuration of constellations. Thus, to his physical attractiveness was added ...

And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.

Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

If your life is not an adventure then you are not truly alive.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain ...

I know that YouTube has made me smarter just by having to think about my views and how to defend them.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of ...

The Foundation has secrets. They have books, old books - so old that the language they are in is only known to a few of ...

Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.

A great nose may be an indexOf a great soul

I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear.

[A] ccounting results dominated most managers' attention to the point where they no longer knew, or cared, about the production, technological, and marketing determinants of ...

I used to be mad on the games, but I had to ban myself. I used to spend three dollars on games, [but] it adds ...

You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind.

... What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is - terror.