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Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in ...
I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, ...
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and ...
For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where ...
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ...
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not ...
You always do that, you know," Alec said.I swallowed a gummy bear. "Do what?""Bite their heads off first."I shrugged. "It's the nice thing to do. ...
No matter how useful the electricity may be, it needs connections to function
My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a ...
Howdy, ma'am. You always talk to yourself?Velia glanced up into bright eyes, as blue as the flame on a cigarette lighter, belonging to a man ...
From a family tree that has healthy roots, there emerge hearty leaves and most beautiful fruits.
One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my ...
Carl was just saying good-bye," Mom said."Really," I said. "He must speak in tongues.
We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It might sound strange, but I think that secure cocoon ...
Promise of secrecy was made at the time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the untimely death of the ...
My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt ...
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither ...
Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all ...
My son, Edward, at 4, to a neighbor boy who was being a pain in our backyard: "Oh, don't whine. my mom will throw you ...
He wasn't the best coder or the most introspective human being, and you must know that it takes the best coder and the most human ...
God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.
After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned ...
To be in love with the person who want to "Be the one that you can't live without" and is willing to prove it with ...
Reading stories forces us to exercise our empathy and imagination muscles, and that helps us conceive what the Bible depicts or demands, helps us connect ...
While a rich man cannot have more than 1440 minutes a day, a clever man makes more time by using OPM or Other Peoples Minutes.-RVM
In a platonic and boring fashion, is it all right if I share your fire until me clothes dry out? I have a feeling if ...
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my ...
If you want to be a good lair, tell people what they want to hear. (From Hot dogs under The Dakota)
And we had met at last in this same cave of greenery, while the summer night hung round us heavy with love, and the odours ...
Winter and SummerWhile it's summer people sayWinter is the better season. Such is human reason. Kamijima Onitsura
I feel so grateful to discover that each new day brings me the opportunity to watch the sunrise and fall in love with you again.
If you're a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us win and make a future together. ...
Flower will not grow, if the stem doesn't allow
Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, ...
My handsome, intelligent, inimitable, delightful, prickly, unlucky Alexei Pavlovich, by the power of imagination invested in me I'll make you who you are because I ...
Yes, there is a science to the aroma of sleeping women(and to think of the girlfriend I was tempted to break up with because she ...
This is a sport where attack and defense that uses fists. Opponents punch at each other and block the punches. The goal is to knock ...
I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love ...
Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.
I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two ...
Being Open to the Guidance of your Own True Nature will Free Others to Do the Same
Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is ...
We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have ...
Writers to explicitly posit that the Joker embraces the chaos of insanity and death, while the Batman instead channels his pain into an endless crusade ...
Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have ...
My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a ...
Trying to be happy without a sense of God's presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.
I talk to Allah, I pray to him.
I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.
Sarah: Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever ...
Fairy tale doesn't always have a happy ending. But still, it's a fairy tale. So does first love. It might not be happy, but it ...
Listening is about making and strengthening a connection with another person.
What is destiny more than an end result? If there is such thing as destiny it must change. With every thought we think, every word ...
Don't make promises when you are motivated or happy. Don't make decisions when you are nervous or upset.
I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and ...
It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will ...
Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.
I have stopped waiting on our leaders. We have been forced to fear the system. But unless we change our ways and the way we ...
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man ...
Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And ...
If you don't have your own identity, you will adopt the brand of another
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the ...
I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of the time than ...
You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup ...
Nothing can make me feel better now, except cocaine.
For us there is little to say. After all, we know that death belongs to life, that it is unavoidable and comes when it wants.
El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress.""I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts ...
You only think of the best comeback when you leave.
I'd like to show you who's the boss, but I'm afraid it would onlyconfirm that you are.
Some people might laugh at me for being too cautious, but stupid accidents happen all the time, and the ones who get killed or badly ...
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of ...
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
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 the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music ...
It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any ...
The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on ...
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy ...
Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.
The Great Wall of Facebook:Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They ...
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses ...
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,Beware the Fury of ...
I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's ...
But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good, ...
Maybe it's a sick fantasy of mine, but I am really looking forward to a debate between a general and a deserter. Plus, I really ...
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we ...
How can you tell the sun doesn't feel good ... it's not so hot.
Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in ...
Our goal is to get sport hunting in the same category as **** fighting and dog fighting. We are going to use the ballot box ...
The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.
Just keep swimming.
With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember ...
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation ...
You never can lose anything without gaining something. So forget the fear of loss and concentrate on the beauty of gain.
When you have been in business as long as I have you will be inclined to put a pretty high value on loyalty. It is ...
When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. ...