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The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

People that want to control words will never ever try to break up, like, a fight on a subway. They will never confront an aggressive ...

I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want ...

I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with ...

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and ...

Massachusetts became the first state to marry gay couples, though lawmakers say allowing gay couples to get married raises a lot of questions. You know, ...

The sex is amazing, he's wealthy, he's beautiful, but this is all meaningless without his love, and the real heart-fail is that I don't know ...

When people see Barack Obama, they don't necessarily see an African-American president. They see someone who is a child of immigrants. They see someone whose ...

We should not only refrain from thinking about gratifying our desires but also avoid focusing on not gratifying our desires. The way to deal with ...

You know ... they say an elephant never forgets. What they don't tell you is, you never forget an elephant.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today?

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

Every time you get a chance to move forward, you just hijack your own future. it's like - you don't actually want to... You're in ...

I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. ...

We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The ...

I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. ...

That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went ...

Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,Don't care about culture, they only want profit.If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped ...

I guess there's so much more I have to learn,But if you're here with me, I know which way to turnYou always give me somewhere, ...

And I realized: souls don't stand alone. What makes a soul a soul is the shared burden and pain, the shared joy: it's the connection ...

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl ...

I didn't ask for this role, but I'll play it. Now go do your best. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. ...

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for ...

Love to love, connection to connection, you carve your complicated path through life; leave one love behind, and the next one always seems out of ...

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else ...

I like to think of myself as a coworker with lots of experience rather than a boss, Franklin said.I like to think of myself as ...

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we ...

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Evan Lucien, if it is my last act upon this Earth," he says, his eyes intense and shadowed in the lantern light, "I will make ...

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their ...

My name is Cammie!" I didn't think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just ...

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar. It's about dignity and self-esteem, which isn't quite the same as vanity.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air ...

Corruption is a virus with an antidote.Injustice is an illness with a remedy.Wisdom is the key to good governance;righteousness is the key to sustaining it.

The circle of indifference has the self at its centre. The circle of compassion has others at the centre. The former leads to apathy; the ...

During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing ...

In the midst of fear Lyra knelt by Lanre's body and breathed his name. Her voice was a beckoning. Her voice was love and longing. ...

Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will ...

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government ...

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really ...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a very clear point ...

I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.

I don't know how one minute, a person can think his life is nothing more than a barren valley with nothing left to look forward ...

But when I was a little girl, my mom always told me to be nice to everybody, no matter what they looked like or how ...

The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need ...

I see hope creeping in, destabilizing old power structures. I feel it in the ground under my feet. I hear it in the stories of ...

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. ...

Consciousness-Based Education is just plugging us all into the beautiful, eternal field within, and then watching things get better, which is what happens. It's a ...

Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is ...

How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? - from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, ...

Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows ...

I can't help but feel, across oceans and vast fields we will connect again. What we share is too rare to let go of for ...

But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the ...

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed ...

I have been being careful since the first minute I saw you. I am the Queen of Carefulness. I shall go on being careful for ...

Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not ...

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock ...

As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community ... community involves a common place, a common ...

When you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more ...

And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.

An eye for an eye my friend.

Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in ...

Being an alpha personality doesn't mean being a dickhead.

All truth is simple ... is that not doubly a lie?

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see ...

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow ...

There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing ...

Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world.

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: ...

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of ...

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating ...

I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a ...

You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all ...

Sometimes, when things take longer than you thought they would, it's just a gentle reminder from your greater self that you have more time than ...

Most people are always doubtful as to whether they are happy or not, cheerful or not. This is the normal state of happiness, as doubt ...

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

Tis an ill wind that blows no minds

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous.

Yo, Dekko, who do I gotta blow around here to get a shower?

One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what ...

Remember that a sincere apology never diminishes the apologizer.

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking ...

To see a man's true colours, tell him that you don't plan on having sex with him. To see a woman's true colours, tell her ...

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.