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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had ...

The effect of the mantram is cumulative: constant repetition, constant practice, is required for the mantram to take root in our consciousness and gradually transform ...

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

I'm a physical receiver, yet I can run and move like someone who is 5-8 or 5-9.

I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' ...

Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable) ...

None of the serious maritime incidents I had to deal with as transport minister off the pristine Queensland or Western Australian coastline involved an Australian ...

Why are you smiling?''I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just ...

Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always ...

I never think people are cheeering for us. In fact, i don't really hear them at all.

The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion ...

Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of ...

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, ...

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing ...

Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster ...

In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do ...

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

Gather knowledge ... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs ... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and ...

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd ...

The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job ...

There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be ...

I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths, so I quite fancied a career in forensics or ...

When I reflect on my story I seem to exist only as the one who came, the one who witnessed, the one who longed to ...

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

Today Carly Fiorina announced that she is running for president. Someone else bought 'CarlyFiorina' and posted 30,000 sad emoticons to represent all the people she ...

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Friends, romans, countrymen lend me your ears i want to burry ceasar but not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ...

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp ...

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person.

Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.

I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here ...

The money needed to run for office, the money spent on lobbying by special interests, the ever-increasing economic disparity, and the well-funded legislative decisions, all ...

Fear Doesn't Shut You Down, It Wakes You Up

If there was a crayon, and I was to put a label on it, I would call it dinosaur skin.-So B. It

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.

There will come a point that your story will take hold of you instead of you taking hold of your story.

As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for ...

It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act ...

The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was ...

( ... ) - So you mean that even having the power to interfere and prevent your childfeel pain, you would choose to show their ...

Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container ...

His soul exploded with the tip of his cock, spewing out an emotion, a need, a compulsive hunger as thick, hot and life-giving as the ...

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical fallacies as I ...

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

World of words lost on the living / I take my place with the walking dead /Robbed of my voice I'm always giving /Thousands of ...

Without facts, rumor, innuendo, intimation, and supposition have a way of conflating into myth.

There are even more fatalities from cirrhoses of the liver [than automobiles], yet Congress has not once mentioned outfitting us all with anti- alcohol equipment.

All couples fight, but healthy couples fight fair. Unhealthy couples fight dirty, with below-the-belt jabs, sucker punches, angry accusations, and bitter grudges. Healthy couples fight ...

If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the ...

But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in ...

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to ...

For the air of youth,Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reignA melancholy damp of cold and dryTo weigh thy spirits down, and last consumeThe ...

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

Steven Adler was really nice, and expressed himself with an infectious, almost childlike enthusiasm. He said, Listen, we're going to be great - going to ...

The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.

I have enough muscle already. Now I want to use it in more efficient ways.

If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.

Christ, therefore, died for our sins, in order to redeem or separate us from the world. ...

You have to coddle menfolks on account of their pride.

This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys ...

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

Everyone is alien. And even when you are in love with someone, even when you think you know them better than you know yourself; even ...

By the light of Gypsy fires, my sister and I came of age way too soonour childhoods were swept away

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows ...

The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve ...

Swyft, a shameless lickspittle whose greatest accomplishment was marrying his equally chinless daughter to Ser Kevan, and thereby attaching himself to the Lannisters.

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe.[Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris,(Cedit ...

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender ...

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You ...

Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of actual experience. They ...

Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique," a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the ...

He wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary ...

Fighting a dragon without a shield or a sword. That is what losing the one we love means.

Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, ...

Most often, those who've been in the well are those most likely to pull others out of the well ... When Jack Canaday was twelve ...

I got a film fairly quickly and felt like I was on a roll. I would walk into auditions sounding like Crocodile Dundee, thinking, 'This ...

While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the ...

Harry and Ron had barely finished their third helpings of Christmas pudding when Hermione ushered them out of the Hall to finalise their plans for ...

Because here's the thing: I was fine on my own, and so are you. But it can be hard when you feel ready for Happy ...

Never glorify anger; as anger is only destructive! You can never be happy destroying something!

A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.

You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew ...

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor ...

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. ...

Knowing that there is no future that is possible or desirable, I experience the solace one feels on going back to sleep when the alarm ...

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD ...

No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to ...