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I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

One experienced minute sometimes teaches us more than a lifetime.

A woman has so many parts to her body, life is very hard indeed.

Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

We are each the protagonist of our life story.

You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody ...

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me ...

I am said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. About that, of course, I cannot judge because I cannot know. But about the ...

Some people may be more gifted than others, but excellence in writing, as in any art form or craft, involves discipline and practice.

My plans were vague. I talked liberty to many of my friends and, you know how it is, when one talks liberty everything seems beautifully ...

I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.

Im am who i am i can't change

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to ...

He gave such a vulnerable impression. He resembled the leaf that a little boy strikes down from its branch with a stick, because its singularity ...

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated ...

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to ...

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much ...

Whenever I am not traveling during the winter, I am pushing hard in the gym. Even when I am traveling, I try to fit a ...

Yeah, why tell the public the truth? said Harry, clenching his knife so tightly that the faint scars on the back of his right hand ...

I have no problem with the arbitration process.

Tea, chocolate,Scotties and a good book. Perfect!

At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You ...

An Australian girl size 12 and a Swedish girl size 12 are completely different, just because of the way they're formed. It's becoming this worldwide ...

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

How can I lose something I have never owned?

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing the ...

The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is ...

There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of ...

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

There is a force of love present everywhere and it can be trusted to bring your own life into order and peace.

When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

We both clung to each other, riding out the crescendo together, making sure we were feeling it all as one. One beat. One note. One ...

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no ...

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That's what the dead would tell ...

We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment.

I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a ...

Then something occurred to me."Get closer," I told Blackjack.He whinnied in protest."Just within shouting distance," I said. "I need to talk to the statue."Now I'm ...

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

I'm a big fan of bringing the outdoors in!

Just her, just him. Just as it should be; no loss of life beyond their own, no soul stained but hers. It would take a ...

Knowledge illuminates any problem.

I always thought I would die before the end. I trudged on knowing I was doomed. But my friends have breathed love into me, breathed ...

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a ...

The old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato 's advice to find men carefully and ...

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let ...

I go, Andronicus: and for thy hand Look by and by to have thy sons with thee.[Aside]Their heads, I mean. O, how this villanyDoth fat ...

To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious ...

The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.

How can he be so cruel to me at times - and then like this? she thought. And again her awakening perceptions gave her the ...

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER - IF YOU LET IT.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so ...

As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone ...

Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

You can always spot the scientist at a strip club, because he is the only one examining the audience.

Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional ... transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers ...

The poorest man in the world is the one who has to buy his happiness.

The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend ...

In the end, for me, there was only this: desire and addiction and hunger, a craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely.

Researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies; spent on a whole food like carrots, the same dollar buys ...

You have to have a sense of humor about it all. You can't take yourself too seriously.

As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ...

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best ...

I'm an absolute clean freak. I'll go to my friends' houses and even start cleaning. I'm such a granny at heart. My couch is my ...

Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and stay, and press belongs essentially to ...

Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can "see" they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don't vibrate at ...

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

It was a hard thing to do, apologize, but I've done harder things.

No one can describe reality. You must experience it, see it, feel the whole atmosphere of it

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.

When she at last pressed her mouth to his, it felt like coming home. He tasted of fire and smoke and earth, and fresh bread ...

Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace ... as you sense your weakness, you receive ...

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

We want to believe that there were better men once. That makes us think it could be that way again. But people don't change. They ...

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Dreamy mind easily hypnotized.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too ...

We are all crazy enough to hear the voices but not strong enough to listen

If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that ...

I think I'm very good at adjusting to anything and to any situation, and if you are good at being in the moment and adjusting, ...

It is the vocation of the Christian in every generation to out-think all opposition.

Acheron the River of Death: Healed souls in the wake of the vessel;My Obolus,He will not redound to the glory of those.Those who drown in ...

Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don't worry how much you spill.

The Beatles were no trouble ... lots of girls. The Stones were black-jacketed guys, a rough crowd. A whole different scene between the Stones' black ...

We'd all be a heap sight better off if we'd forget the highfalutin notions of our fancy civilization and mind more what the savages knew ...