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I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from ...
If I want to have a conversation, I can't have a list of questions, because the second question on the list is going to interrupt ...
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they ...
One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
So, you purchased ancient Babylonian texts, which may or may not call forth Gozer the Destroyer, on eBay? Zeb asked.
The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.
Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); ...
U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came ...
There's always been violence in movies, and there will always be violence in movies. Whether it lends to the one psychotic that's out there, thinking ...
I saw my aunties and my mum give up a part of themselves and their dreams to have kids. There were things they wanted to ...
To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means you take a stand for Christ even ...
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to ...
When you cause pain to those weaker than you, the guilt turns to loathing. Into a most secret and profound loathing, for we can never ...
I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high standard.
In my spiritual and academic journeys, I have learned that it is imperative for Christians to pursue truth at all costs.
Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth ...
Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing ...
Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be ... His verdict ...
My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.
So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long ...
You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
SummerThe seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemispherethe warmest months of the year: June, July and August. The period of finest development, ...
The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in ...
Those pizzas I ate were for medicinal purposes.
I think music will be created algorhythmically, all the things that we do will be boiled down to a little computer program.
It is not the posture of the body, but the attitude of the heart that counts when we pray ... The important thing is not ...
In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.
Emperors, kings, artisians, peasens, big peopleat the bottom we are all alike and all the same; all just alike on the inside, and when our ...
The photographs of the inmates at Bergen-Belsen or Andersonville Prison or the bodies in the ditch at My Lai disturb us in a singular fashion ...
Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this ...
Hey what's your name""Candi." She's hesitant, like that beaten dog Jade mentioned. "Candi Woodward.""I'm Ayla Monroe."She laughs uneasily. "I know.""Out, Candi Cane," Jane orders.
They were more than partners, more than brothers; they were very nearly the same person.
With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492.
I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night.
I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.
The warrior of the Light sits around a fire with his companions.
I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.
[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to ...
Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'- All my old loves will be returned to me
I took the right leg of that woman's body, from the knee to the hip took the fat off and ate it while he stared ...
Who wants good people in government? Good people should be in the private sector. Helping us out, helping themselves out in the private sector. We ...
Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. ...
Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.
I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy ...
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this ...
You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
If you don't ask, you'll never know. Be an educated risk taker.
If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then ...
I have a 14 year old daughter now. You know, it was that time in these kids lives when these girls are becoming women and ...
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep ...
It is enough. This is the right place." Brigham Young uttered those words when his wagon reached the mouth of Emigration Canyon and he gazed ...
A man can be old and a foolmany area man can be young and wisefew are
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple ...
October 1976 was the penultimate performance of Bench's Hall of Fame career. All the early success and awards and accolades thrown in his direction had ...
If we adopted Jack," I quip, "we'd have to give him combat pay for an allowance
The world is full of paper, write to me
The most beautiful love is the one who found it during our search for something else.
I was always interested in science, and pre-med was arespectable thing to do while I ursued my songwriting.
Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.
Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested ...
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending ...
The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. ...
Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
If you want the rainbow, then you must have the rain.
I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from ...
The light of awakeness itself is the deepest transformative agent, and the deepest alchemy takes place in the willingness to stay conscious to our own ...
It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares.
The Roman Catholic church ... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
When you get a whole country - as did ours - thinking that Washington is a sort of heaven and behind its clouds dwell omniscience ...
There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, ...
If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological reasons, ...
Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. "I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining possible futures through a black ...
I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'
From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama ...
Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of ...
We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.
If you prioritized well, you will spent good times
...and then a murder mystery will occur.
I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it ...
As we neared the watering hole, I saw lions sprawled at the base of the acacia tree, relaxing in the shade. Many, many lions. If ...
And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, ...
The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.
Pontus , instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God , that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to ...
Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.
Your opponents do not want you to persevere;they are afraid you will succeed.Your allies want you to persevere;they will benefit from your success.
I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else
Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cyborg asks Shade to gather the Secret ...
There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.
Beards were like axehound pups. Boys dreamed of the day they'd get one, never realizing how annoying they could be.
She can't even think anymore, she prefers to sing.
Confidence is more attractive than anything you could put on your body.
There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients into a feast,or ...
Every time I sing, it it's a reminder to myself that I have to be confident.
I just want Aerosmith to always give me a hard-on, that's all I ever ask for, for it to be the most special thing in ...