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Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.
There were others. SEALs and Aussies, Green Berets and Canadians.
An extraordinarily rare ability is in your possession. Hone the skills so you effectively utilize your gift. As we speak and as you wile away ...
My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...
1 ounce dried comfrey leaf 1 ounce yarrow blossoms 1 ounce dried sage leaf 1 ounce dried rosemary leaf 1 large fresh bulb of garlic ...
Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.
Annie, Annie you sangand I knew you drove a pure gold carand put diamonds in you cokefor the crunchy sound, the adorable soundand the moon ...
In all honesty, if somebody asked me the secret of auditioning for Americans, I don't know. Often, I do what's called self-taping for America. I ...
I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set ...
I have stayed in lots of great hotels around the world, and the Plaza Athenee is definitely one of my favourites.
To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of ...
I'd already shot a zombie. Maybe this smartmouth blue-eyed apple-pie boy would be next.
Film is not analysis, it is the agitation of mind; cinema comes from the country fair and the circus, not from art and academicism.
But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, ...
Anybody see 'Cop Land'? I went to go see it, but I got stoned in the parking lot. And then on the way in, I ...
23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, aObey my bvoice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ...
I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.
I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.
There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging ...
Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed ...
Savers like spenders, worriers like avoiders and planners marry dreamers.
This is a very insulting tributeBut take it in good heartCongratulations Mom and DadYou've reached Silver together ... apartLots of love etc
She'd left him.Without a word. Without a thought. She'd left him and now he hadfeelings.For that alone, he'd never forgive her.
You're a firestarter honey...just one big Zippo lighter
Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
Thursday, the-night-of-the-date, comes and goes, leaving a school bus tire track across Desi's heart, fear abrading her mind until she can think of nothing except ...
Adjourn for another beer. We
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have ...
All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was.
Oh look, an ATM! Ok, here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good ...
Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He ...
[A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created ... At a stroke then, the Veyron has rendered everything I've ...
Respect gay couples but no gay adoptions.
Then he turned to Seth. "And don't think you and me are okay. It's great you're no longer Ares' little bitch-boy, but you're still a ...
Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same ...
Linguists traditionally observe that esteemed writers have been using they as a gender-neutral pronoun for almost a thousand years. As far back as the 1400s, ...
When you work at home, fellow alums, discipline is the supreme virtue. Suicidal self-loathing lurks behind every coffee break. Activities must be expertly scheduled, from ...
Before you look for validation in others, try and find it in yourself
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair.
If you only believe what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not truth you believe, but yourself. - Possidius Adeodat, Archivist ...
There are two days in the year that you cannot do anything: YESTERDAY & TOMORROW: Only TODAY you can Be Happy, Smile, Dream, Love, Feel, ...
I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to ...
I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've ...
Love: understanding, honesty, humility, forgiveness, acceptance, patience, reverence, gratitude, graciousness, benevolence, compassion and integrity. Be Love.
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
The way you treat your food on your plate is a reflection of the way you treat people in your life. Learning how to dine ...
AmaXhosa came to an end, and their numbers were made up from among
I take pleasure in an excellent work done.
After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)
Libya, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Somaliland, nourished by Italian taxation, comprised a vast region in which nearly a quarter of a million Italian colonists toiled, and began ...
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached ...
It was a mistake to not tell you how I felt. It's haunted me since the day I came home and found you gone. You'll ...
Kitsch parodies catharsis ... It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a ...
Our lives are inpired by the dreams we have from the earliest stages of our youth. When you combine passion and hard work, then success ...
I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
I Love You in that Big, Over the Edge, Deep Dark Way.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
I don't settle. That's how I am.
All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.
Songs of praise the angels sang, Heav'n with alleluias rang, when creation was begun, when God spoke and it was done.
I would prefer to have gum on my face than own up to the fact that I accidentally got gum on my face. And of ...
Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time ...
Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like ...
In their figurative game of chess, Anthony Rawlings had Claire in check. Every move she made, he countered.
As long as we thing we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.
Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first. Or perhaps cause ...
I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.
He slept beneath the moon, he basked beneath the sun; he lived a life of going to do and died with nothing done
Think of it as therapy," he encouraged. "A sort of repayment for your own therapeutic knowledge. You gave me a reason to live, and I'll ...
If he was winter, I was summer. If I was sunshine, he was night. A dark and stormy one.
Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is ...
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow ...
Be more loving. Great teams are built by authentic leaders who are not afraid to speak truthfully and show kindness. This is not a sign ...
My brother threw up his hands. "What does a woman need to do, Harry? Rip her clothes off, throw herself on top of you, and ...
I like the idea of shows where I don't know where I'll be at the end of the season.
Newsweek never hired women as writers and only one or two female staffers were promoted to that rank no matter how talented they were ... ...
When the waif look first came into fashion, Anna Nicole Smith was in the Guess campaigns looking like a real woman. A girl who looks ...
You need to trustTo surrenderTo ask for guidanceGo within for the answersThey're within youYou have the answersAll you need do is ask
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
Can a Filipina be depicted as smart without having to shout all the time? Or down-to-earth and honest without having to start every sentence with ...
I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear ...
Girls may try to avoid being alone at all costs, including remaining in an abusive friendship.
It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really ...
Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've ...
I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.
It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!
There's work to do.
We run, straining, gasping, and groaning, in our own separate directions, and the more we struggle the closer we're pulled together.
I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be ...
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny ...
My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per ...
There is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and ...
He wondered how the Attolians thought Eugenides had managed to become king if he was the idiot they assumed him to be. Perhaps because they ...
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out ...
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).
Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why ...
You know, Stone, just because a pretty girl prefers a firefighter to you doesn't mean all the boys at that firehouse need to suffer for ...
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.
The game is fixed. Alwayas has been, always will be, and the only way out for a man is the gangster's road.