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Yes. Laugh. But there's sense in the old rules. They kept people out of trouble.' He was annoyed because I laughed, and said that a ...

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of ...

If we're like everyone else, no one would take us seriously.

If you want to improve your life and the lives of those around you, you must take action.

No one else, Love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,we will go together, over the waters of time.No one else will travel through ...

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business ...

1 likes Like Yes, there will be rough times with your SoulMate, especially when you run up against your remaining ego barriers or trigger them ...

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord ...

You're mother says you've never passed a mirror ou didn't like. It's true, in a way. It's not that you're vain; you're concerned. Mirrors are ...

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by ...

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like ...

After five years of military occupation, the French population of Illinois was exhausted and bewildered.

He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a ...

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than ...

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.

Q: Why won't sharks attack lawyers? A: Professional courtesy.

But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, ...

Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without ...

It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have ...

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is ...

Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was."Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he ...

You said you were a fairy princessYou said you were a shooting starYou said we'd go to Bora BoraNow look at where the fuck we ...

You can't direct without a good crew.

They put their animals to the ford and crossed, the water up under the horses' bellies and the horses picking their way over the rocks ...

You're going to go after that dream for both of us. And then, one day when it all comes true, I want you to look ...

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did ...

I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ...

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors ...

Perhaps my bad temper or my jealousy are gradually getting worse - so gradually that the increase in seventy years will not be very noticeable. ...

Men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men.

Oh, fuck the paperwork

The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you ...

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is ...

A rare, deep and passionate love.

No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're ...

One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary.

I don't think I'd be exaggerating to say that the essence of who I am today is a result of the weight training. It's made ...

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and ...

Adventure is worthwhile.

Some things are worth the risk.

And what does an anthropologist do these days?" sad Paul. "Same thing a supernumerary minister doesbecomes a public charge, a bore, or possibly a rum-dum, ...

Overcome with anger, David grabbed her other arm. Why did she have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she see how good The Wave could ...

Ideas are incestuous.

The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get ...

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so ...

Avoid working in windowless environments for good health.

I've attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it's their duty to please ...

I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I didn't know we ...

Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is ...

I've always been pleased with the investments I've made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would ...

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past ...

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly ...

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

Eating is not a crime. It's not a moral issue. It's normal. It's enjoyable. It just is.

Negative emotions are action signals.

I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely ...

It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home ...

Nineteen eighty is almost here, thank God. the hippies are getting old, they blew their brains on acid and now they're begging on street corners ...

People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.

I saw 2 shooting stars tonight & made 1 wish. It was beautiful.

I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me.

Staring at Joey's eyes blinking up from his pale face was a bit like inhaling a pound of rock candy while watching puppies play.

And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to ...

The light at the end of the tunnel is for those who believe that there is an existence of light.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial ...

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new ...

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

And when I have that feeling, that feeling like I need a handout, desperate, I want to pull my skin off and turn into dust.I ...

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

The songs worked as a different kind of rhetoric, one that could reach the fence-sitters.

Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.

There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's ...

You don't look very hard for things you don't believe will or can happen.

Sun and snow is an Angel's glow, but storm and rain? That's a Demon's bane.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

It's amazing how many of the things needed for a basic biology lab are capable of blowing up, if you're willing to try very, very ...

The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

The practice of overcoming hope is recognizing our positive qualities. With excessive hope, we begin to belittle what we have achieved. We might then feel ...

Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery

Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best ...

A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might ...

That which is original creates a new origin. That which is original, by definition, must stray off the previously worn paths. It must wander; it ...

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many ...

You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared ...