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It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two ...

Kerner decided to trade my rights to the Chicago Stags, which sounded better to me than Tri-Cities, but the Stags folded up almost immediately.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

You really are pretty stupid sometimes, you know that? I think you must be more man than demon." With that, she stormed off. Sam sat ...

What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world ofwork, rather than ...

Our interexistence assures that there is an effect for every intention, action, decision and word. For good or for evil, the people we are in ...

First lesson taught to doctors in medical college:"Be emotional about the disease, not the patient.

Sometimes natural and self-inflicted atonement is more severe than that of mankind's devising.

One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.

When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

I've been able to see all that I've needed, my love: your kindness, your compassion, your tenderness, your love, and your soul. These are all ...

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by ...

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

Well, mostly I'm a mechanic. But the idea that the UN has a file on me somewhere that lists me as the Rocinante's killer? That's ...

And as for the enlightened, one can only pity them the deceptions of their muses.

I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all

Rise above ... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs ...

I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.

Hairy Mammal whaddya want

When you are ready to accept him for the imperfect man that he is, and find happiness in his imperfect company, you have definitely found ...

In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the ...

I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven, when I awoke, I spent that on a NECKLACE ...

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

He wished to cover her with his body, possess her-for if he could do that, he could pretend to himself that she was safe. Covering ...

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Sometimes the right thing to do will cost us our greatest sacrifices, but the rewards will always outweigh our losses

Once you're done changing, you're done.

I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange ...

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

Fucking Little Fifteen Ada Palomino throwing change at a hotdog vendor and trying to catch up with Maximus, all long limbs and bad eye makeup. ...

They say that cats are the only animal that can sit in your lap and ignore you. To which I say: you've never been to ...

A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests.

Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.

But then again, I was pretty certain I'd make more mistakes, so I didn't dwell on the one I'd just made too long. This is ...

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art ...

In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

I'd always hated any kind of peanut butter candy. Peanut butter, in my opinion, belonged in sandwiches and nowhere else.

It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them ...

You know, you ladies can let us males do things every now and then.

If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but ...

I'm starting to believe that hell is everywhere.

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no ...

Did thetwo of you marry again? Please tell me yes. If he is my brother-in-law again, he is less likelyto kill me for what I ...

I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.

I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he ...

Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and ...

It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and ...

When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, ...

You do your best work when you feel safe.

Without our God we should fear to move; but when He bids us to, it would be dangerous to tarry.

Any filmmaker who has translated some personal vision into a film that actually gets shot and distributed is wildly successful. Congratulations! Anything after that is ...

I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but ...

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance ...

I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

I've always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.

Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether ...

I'm not a betting man.

Nella vita: chi non risica, non rosica," he said finally, his voice quiet. "In life: nothing ventured, nothing gained. My mom used to tell us ...

You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.

One thing I know that is I know NOTHING

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, ...

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

You won't burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

It's harder to reveal sides of yourself that make you vulnerable but it's another muscle that can be developed and one that I think is ...

Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the ...

Someone who was talking aboutenemies, is afraid of showing to beit's own enemy.P. HermansAugust 19, 2016

For it was beautiful upon our tongues and we traced all the lines to the heart.

When the Lord fights the battles of the saints, he does it so effectually that nobody gets nervous but the enemy

There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

Train yourselves by seeking and acknowledging beauty moment by moment every day of your lives," he told them. "Exercise your eyes. Take pleasure in the ...

We're people who knew older versions of each other too well to ever see the new person standing in front of us.

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but ...

Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly garments ...

I felt close to him, but somehow the energy was sensual but not ... sexual. Erotic, yes, but I didn't want to fuck him. He ...

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. ...

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about ...

Disappear where? You know what they say: Curiosity killed the mutant bird kid. But I couldn't help myself.

Do not expect human beings to reward you, don't even think about it, just LOVE, because you know at the end of the day it ...

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.

An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for ...

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it ...

Achmed 'Two Jews walk into a bar'No no no no no' JeffYou don't let Jews in your bar? You racist bastard' Achmed"-Achmed the dead terrorist ...

I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also ...

You could tell exactly where the popular kids were sitting, the jocks, the drama kids, the band kids, the goths, the kickers, and the other ...

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability ... you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the ...