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I knew I could not sketch a woman, in all her natural inner beauty. I may have the perfect skill, but putting something in pen ...
I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S. in the middle of ...
At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in ...
The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, ...
Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character ... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your ...
I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.
I watch the weirdest things. I watch old episodes of 'Golden Girls' because my mom watches it, so I grew up watching that. Sometimes I ...
Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.
I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds ...
Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward ...
It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Just as extreme love, in a marriage, for example, can turn to hate. They're the same coin, just different sides.
Laugh at yourself. It's the single most important aspect of surviving this crazy business. And that's from the man that gave Cap[tain America] boobs.
I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, ...
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough.
College-educated workers are more likely to enjoy what they do for a living, and identify closely with their careers, so work long hours willingly.
The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul
Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.
Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move ...
Accept nothing. Challenge everything.
The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening ...
The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly ...
The change starts when you start watching a video. You don't see it, you don't feel it but it starts at this moment, just by ...
He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has ...
Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the ...
When we understand the illusory nature of life and the profound power of eternal love, which enables us to create miracles and experience the presence ...
Amy is so correct that a good personality can make a guy better-looking.
Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...
What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?""I don't know. My ... my code of morals, perhaps.""Your code of morals. What code, ...
There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and ...
The real magic wand is the child's own mind.
I am changingand i am loving change.
Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a ...
Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion ...
No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I ...
[The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip ...
Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue ...
Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: ...
It's come full circle: the girl who set me on the path of destruction can be my redemption.
Sex and race, because they are easy and visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and ...
What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about ...
I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.
Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.
Therefore, before any action is taken, we must explain the policy, which we have formulated in the light of the given circumstances, to Party members ...
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big ...
Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.
I'm glad for the rain...It's good camouflage.
His cold, unmoving face startled me, but the warmth from his hands left me curious and longing for more of his touch.
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that ...
Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make ...
Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the ...
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too ...
The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many ...
Truth is always a turning point.
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am ...
Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.
Forced relations between two things that superficially appear foreign create a new, instantaneous state. Authentic poetry asks nothing more. A kinship completely nonexistent moments ago ...
Only God can set the soul in bondage free.
To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it ...
One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.
Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete controlyourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough ...
She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ...
To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh ...
You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.
Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when ...
I'm going to grab something to eat," Lorelei said. "Would you like to come with me?""No, thank you. I think I'll just stay here with ...
Congratulations!If I may be so boldOnly 40 years to goBefore you're a century oldJust saying
I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' ...
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually ...
I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and ...
If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into ...
Are you already drunk?" "No. Just ... in a weird mood." And it's true. I feel unsteady like if I stop moving I'll crack and ...
A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have ...
You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in ...
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from ...
You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. ...
The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is - they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ...
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at ...
Before you speak words of hatred, so count with peace in your voice to ten.
I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do ...
You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!
I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. ...
Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.
By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and ...
Capitalism cannot cause a financial crisis because capitalism is about markets constantly correcting errors. It is government intervention that can and often does cause crises,
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...
Great teachers are great mentors.
From a legal point of view - " He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it ...
He is Jesus, only. God has revealed Himself to us through Jesus. Jesus is what God wanted us to know and to love. He is ...
You don't need a crown to be a Princess. You don't even need a Prince. You just have to believe that you deserve to be ...