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Trillions of dollars are being spent in the name of 'saving' the economy: bailouts, 'stimulus,' omnibus spending bills, budgets, government takeovers of the auto, health ...

I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the ...

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, ...

By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger ...

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an ...

In my view, the greatest threat to America's future isn't hiding in a cave in Pakistan or Afghanistan; it's right here at home. Baby boomers ...

I believe with every cell in my body that every cell in yours must not, must never, die, and if it does have to die, ...

Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. ...

And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money ...

C is the assembly language of Tcl.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at ...

God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach ...

In Nurturant Parent morality, the teenage girl is "in trouble," she needs help and deserves empathy (moral-action Category 2 - helping).

There were still newspapers, then. We used to read them in bed. It's French, he said. From m'aidez. Help Me.

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all overthem for years.

The direction in which you head is determined by your own conscious decision to go there, and no one can take that away from you. ...

But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't ...

Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.

My art is the way I reestablish the bonds that tie me to the universe.

The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual ...

I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army ...

Quentin Tarantino assistant called me and said: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is you got the part, the bad news ...

Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old ...

I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the ...

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

Time is the easiest asset to spend recklessly ...

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

May nothing wind you up, nothing affright you; everything comes and goes. God, still, just there; through patience all will be achieved. If you have ...

I did not imagine myself working with Luis Estrada or with the Wachowski Brothers and these are things that have happened to me and I ...

Whenever something great happens, you're always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I ...

I am a strong believer in grass roots communities, but I also believe government resources, when available, should be equally available to all people.

Mysticism was merely virility in a state of liquidation; sperm that had gone bad.

Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

Our ancestors had displayed great strengths in space science. What people like Aryabhata had said centuries ago are being recognised by science today. We are ...

Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild ...

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ...

Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that." "Do you have some better suggestion?" "Why can't you just say ...

American politics, like most things, is a story of what statisticians describe as the reversion to the mean.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to ...

There is no music in a "rest" that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that ...

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face ...

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?

In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable.

The very biggest and apparently most impossible conflicts on earth were based on the dialogue: 'You are stupid, no, it's you who are stupid.' The ...

You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake, ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house after the TV set has ...

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales ...

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between ...

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in ...

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball

Pessimism is not good for the soul.""I sold my soul years ago.""To whom?""The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.

Tim believes that entrepreneurship isn't based on an idea or a plan, or even a model - it is based on having a strong competency ...

Everything (N.W.A.) attempted had to possess criminal undertones. I can only assume they spent hours trying to deduce villainous ways to microwave popcorn (and if ...

You are an abomination before God.Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.

You can be a sincere person devoting yourself to your husband child or boss, but your sincerity cannot and will not, fill the gap in ...

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom of religion was ...

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you're at your weakest.

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others

Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.

When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine ...

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new ...

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been ...

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too ...

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.[Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;Nisi quis illud tractat aut ...

The Best and Right thing to do in Life, is Give a Person a Chance to finish what they started.

It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so ...

The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.

I've changed. You can't help it. Your mind starts working in a different way. You feel really scrutinised by people.

Always check the peephole before answering the door. You never know who's on the other side.Translation: serial killers knock before attacking.

Our ... advantage was that we had evolved unstated but fruitful methods of collaboration ... If either of us suggested a new idea, the other, ...

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in ...

Estene aleera hesaad de viren aneda. And now, you are forever mine.

I can tell you now that if you break things off with Alana, I'm gonna want to high five you in the face with a ...

Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn.[Lat., Neque semper arcumTendit Apollo.]

The Artesian Well never returns its flow, where may stream its arrogation of space?

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

I'm impressed you got up here so quickly - and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand ...

You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?

The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do ...

God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew for 'man' is 'aish'. In English man can ...

It will be all right, Kirito. I will always be watching your back. We're the greatest forward and backup in the world.

In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long ...

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in ...

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and ...

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

Love isn't invincible. Some people take advantage of that.

I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.