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When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me to keep quiet.
We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient ...
For 20 years they have asked me the same question, who is the greatest? Pele or Maradona? I replay that all you have to do ...
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is ...
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a ...
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before ...
There's a kind of secrecy in the world at this time of night, as if I'm allowed to see mysteries hidden in daylight.
One should never turn to one's left when facing the nagual.
Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your ...
There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you ...
It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box ...
No significant American group hates like the left does. If you differ with them - from global warming, to race relations, to same-sex marriage, to ...
Creativity is the lifeblood of American ingenuity and the yellow brick road to the American Dream.
Even the Sovereign couldn't change History, but he could decide how History was interpreted ...
I've been out there 3 days and I got shot at 3 times,Felt like every bullet hit me when they flew out each 9.I'll be ...
Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.
Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching ...
It may well be that there will be this socialism, Juliana,' she said, 'but I can tell you right now that no amount of socialism ...
I felt brave all of a sudden. Yeah, maybe it was just a stupid and immature school yard fight. Or maybe it was the most ...
But you take what you get in this world. What else can you do?
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her ...
I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of emphaty and humanity ...
It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only ...
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted ...
I'm the type that'll give any man a chance to come correct before leavin in a ambulance
Chicago - this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in ...
Officials from the soccer organization FIFA, which decides which cities get to host the World Cup, are accused of accepting bribes when making their decision. ...
We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice ...
I think the sport of cycling is different then racing. The sport is just about being healthy and giving yourself an outlet so it's a ...
It is impossible for any single medium to fully capture the emotion and intensity of war. The Battlefield 3: The Russian novel is one window ...
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
I can't take the anger, the loneliness, the pain any longer. I sink to my knees. Everything wrong with my life swells in a rush ...
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst ...
The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.
Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better
(Mantle) was clearly a greater player in his peak years.
Don't leave my embrace for here in my arms is your place.
It was almost a relief, no longer having to be extraordinary. To give up on existential questioning and simply abide.
If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise, and the horror ...
I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.
Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.
The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and ...
Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be ...
When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.
You know, of course, that the natural shade of the lip is repeated across a woman's body in more intimate places. Your color is so ...
With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the ...
I work out with my trainer or do an hour of pilates at 6 or 7AM. I'm done by the time my household is awake.
A closed door really is an open door in disguise.
The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and ...
I wished it was raining," he said."I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you.
FEW PEOPLE in American history have been as consistently disliked as the Puritans.
Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to ...
The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets ...
It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.
Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we are all "beach men" and that "the sand"--I am quoting his own words-- keeps the traces ...
This country is no more saved than; well ... it's as lost as they say in Alabama, " ... as lost as a ball in ...
It takes grace and courage to endure the worst situation.
I have to change to stay the same.
You're one connection away from being able to change your life.
May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are.
Wake me up Wake me up, you said But I was sleeping, too I was dreaming But now Im waking up Still waking up I ...
The snow will cover me like a thick white blanket. It will be warm under the snow, and if they speak of me they'll have ...
We are worthy simply because we exist.
We have become the charnel house of the Western World.
Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, ...
True love doesn't exist, for, love is always true. If it is not true, then it is not love at all.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to ...
He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of ...
Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.
I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being ...
I'm hoping to find an advertisement for a job that entails worrying when removing your hand from your pockets because you always think that you ...
The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing ...
He lifted up another card and set it down before him. 'Priest of Life, hah, now that's a good one. Game's done.''Who wins?' the Adjunct, ...
Making mountains out of molehills sells more books than a study of molehills.
Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virginWe could plan a murderOr start a religion.
I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one sided ...
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the ...
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are ...
We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while ...
He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is thereason that I don't believe anything he has told me.
Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a ...
Then I will not repineKnowing that bird of mineThough flown shall in a distant treeBright melody for meReturn.
The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is ...
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.
Start small - if you drink soda, stop drinking soda. You don't have to make every single change at once or overnight, you can make ...
I don't know if it's the terrible pain from my shouler or the weight of his emotional baggage, but I feel like I'm losing all ...
Promoting the human capacity to reason and make decisions: that is the purpose of whistle-blowing, of activism, of political journalism.
I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.
There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.