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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult ...

I am convinced that international terrorism gave itself the goal of not allowing the re-election of Bush. The statement by bin Laden in the final ...

I've so got my plate full with Resident Evil and then The Three Musketeers, I'm just not involved with Castlevania. I'm not personally involved with ...

We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to ...

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't ...

There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets ... trees sing with the songs of butterflies. And mythical ...

I'd feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don't.

When Rydstrom shut the door, Cade stared at it for long moments.At length, he turned for the steps. "Fuckall," he said on a stunned breath. ...

Neil Young sang, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." I say it's better to burn slow and see your grandkids.

In America people have this funny idea about enlightenment and money. Money expresses a level of commitment. Studying enlightenment is like going to a university.

I can hold a cup of sake on a full moon in Japan, and the reflection of the moon in that little cup can make ...

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You've got ...

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ...

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De ...

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of ...

I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a ...

One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being ...

Yup," Heather replied. "Some jackass tries to prick me and I'm gonna prick him right back! Leave the bottle, bucko. Save ya a trip.

Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a ...

You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...

The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed ...

The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched ...

Oh, I'm going to miss everything. It's been the most amazing and significant job of my life obviously and I'll always have it near and ...

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many ...

I play Dr. Karen Boyer in 'Spies Like Us.' She's strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.

I ceased even to breathe. It was ridiculous, of course, but you know that ghost-story feeling.

Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how ...

Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.

The purpose of life is to live. The meaning of life is whatever you choose. The secret to life is balance in all things ...

My daughter breaks both her wrists jumping off of a swing. Her friend, who is five, told her to jump off of it. I promise ...

In the long run, stories are probably no less valuable than money, but in the short run they have their decided

It's morning when I go to sleepIn the distant dawn a church bell ringsAnother day is coming onA baby's born, an old man diesSomewhere young ...

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

A lion is not a lion if it is only free to eat, to sleep and to copulate. It deserves to be free to hunt ...

There's always a sense of pride you take out on the field to play your best every night. Sometimes your best stinks.

When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is ...

Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn ...

I often think about my future wife and how lax she's been about getting in touch with me.

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not ... All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, ...

I can see why people love the idea of a big white wedding - it is a day when they are the centre of attention ...

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to ...

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the ...

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we can preserve signs ...

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

There is something so powerful about a person who in one moment can be confident enough to confront a client about a sensitive personal issue, ...

There's nothing better than a cold beer on a hot day at the beach.

Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me ...

I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my ...

I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports ...

When your conscious and subconscious are at symmetry with each other, intuition plays little to no role in your decisions. Everything becomes blurry, because you ...

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works ...

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ...

I kind of grew up my whole life as an underdog. I had two older brothers who would beat on me and then let me ...

My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to ...

I have a big collection of quotation programs ... In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of ...

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor ...

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

Am I going crazy? Am I supposed to believe that God is a big black woman with a questionable sense of humor?

If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals ... We have to be political ...

Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand ...

It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

Are you any relation to your brother Marv?

A friend loves at all times.

See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, ...

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were ...

Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we're going to stay ...

A women's college is a fine idea, and I hope it continues to flourish. Even if most of its students go on to dedicate themselves ...

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, ...

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and ...

Fabregas literally carries 10 yards of space around in his shorts.

So when they win, it's their hard workAnd when they lose, it's their bad luck

Basically, when I was filming John Tucker the guy that I was seeing for two years was cheating on me. Sophia, Ashanti, and Arielle really ...

Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had ...

Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION.

Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life - no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn't ...

I love you today. I will love you tomorrow. I will love you always. Because when we are reborn, I will fall in love with ...

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like ...

Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The ...

It has taken more than a hundred scientists two years to find out how to make the product in question; I have been given thirty ...

There is usually an 'X factor' that is hard to define. For HTC, I think it is our culture. We embrace the best of our ...

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen ...

May the crushed spirit revived.

Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it ...

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me ...

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because ...

It is well to be attentive to successive ambitions that flood the growing boy's and girl's imagination. They leave profound traces behind them. During those ...

The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults ...

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, ...

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' ...

Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can't relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it feels fucking great ...

Once upon a long ago time I was a girl with hopeful halos in my eyes - not unlike you - not a typical beauty ...

I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, ...

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.