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When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very 'tomboy' at the time, I wasn't interested. But ...
Josey shook her head, thinking, if Della Lee were a candy, she would be a SweeTart. Not the hard kind that broke your teeth, the ...
His eyes sarcastically. "Actually, my
One day, soon after the Buddha's enlightenment, a man saw the Buddha walking toward him. The man had not heard of the Buddha, but he ...
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue ...
Many do not have the courage to face the truth of life and instead dwell upon some delusions to escape it. Any such escapism is ...
I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.
His reach exceeds his grasp. He tries to do things no one else would even dream of attempting-and he usually brings about three-quarters of it ...
The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
I brought you back because I could not find the strength to fight her without you but for that same reason I will do everything ...
Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I ...
We don't have to make the bible relevant-it is-but we have to show its relevance. What is irrelevant, in my opinion, is our style of ...
I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.
The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car ...
We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of ...
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
What is it in the human condition that tries to impose our own view onto others, without the ability, capacity, propensity, to receive somebody else's ...
Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. ...
He had developed a superstitious fear of the instant, that tiny hole through which all the time available to human beings must pass.
Why would I? Seriously, what guy turns down Die Hard? The only thing that could sweeten this deal is if you offered me some booze.""I ...
Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will ...
If we seek social status, we give other people power over us: We have to do things calculated to make them admire us, and we ...
The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive ...
Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.
Your heart chakra is not in your physical body. It is in your subtle physical body, but it comes in contact with your physical body ...
Love is not time's fool
I cannot imagine being happy anywhere else in the world but in Cape Town - South Africa in general, but Cape Town in particular.
A man is ruled by appetite and remorse, and I swallowed what I could.
The band has always been such a huge part of my life and it kept me very busy. That, in combination with something like running ...
Only yonder magnificent pine-tree ... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the ...
Learn to trust what you cannot see far more than what you can see.
A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was ...
We believe in the good old days; we believe our best is in the past. Our past is our memories, our past is our learnings, ...
Apple Pay also lacks a loyalty-rewards program, which has been key to the success of one of the world's most popular payment apps: Starbucks, which ...
The region is a desert of stones, a solitude with a character of its own, an arid spot, which could only be inhabited by beings ...
We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident,
Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just recently paid a ...
Oh yeah, I own this like a patronus, baby.
They were too near to me. I loved them to much. And the love overtaking me and combined with the fact that I was going ...
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
So next time you hear a raving demagogue counseling hatred for other, slightly different groups of humans, for a moment at least see if you ...
It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall also die. Without ...
The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians ...
Yeah, Jennifer, when you explain the joke, it kind of ruins the magic." "So long as you think I'm magic," she said with a wink,
The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and ...
I'd love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the '70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred ...
It's a universal law that if you unscrew or unbolt more than 10 parts from any machine that there is only a 3% chance that ...
To excel in the art of domestic argument, one must master the art of losing.
Serene last evening,short as life,end of all that was loved,I want to be eternal!
It ain't as hard as picking cotton
You need to ratchet down the crazy town.
The bedroom was as opulently decorated as the front room, with a bed large enough to hold six, and a wardrobe that should by all ...
I think I hear someone on the stairs. The old wooden boards creak like crazy, and I hear the tell-tale sound of someone walking up ...
I am going to give the American people a huge helping of unbridled truth: that we can't continue to spend what we are spending, that ...
If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.
A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
You're a demigod," he said hoarsely.It was the first thing he said."Yeah," I replied, my voice breathy. "Is that ... um, okay with you?"His gaze ...
Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.
The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to ...
But what if the beautiful things don't mean anything? What if they're just superficial? What if the ugly stuff is stronger?
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.
Tradition is a prop for social security.
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.
The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you ...
As he pushes aside a piece of my hair, tucking it behind my ear, he seductively whispers, "Dahlia, I want you. I want to kiss ...
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether ...
Live your life like it is the last day you live!
Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.
If I was Judge Del Rosario, I would say Ili, of all people, you know better.
A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the ...
According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. ...
When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 ...
Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married.
Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought ...
They are playing above the ground.
I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a ...
Films like Harry Potter and Narnia, I'm sure they'll do another one. The biggest audience of course is the youngsters.
I believe that as an entrepreneur, when you share success, it grows.
Connected to the Crane's Nest than she. Still, it sort of sucked to have what was a pretty epic kiss interrupted by ghostly possession. Ghosts ...
When all candels be out, all cats be grey,All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,Foul ...
It takes 10 hands to score a basket
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance ...
The image of those widmestern storms that rip up the world as you know it, and leave, like a sacrifice, a rainbow to make you ...
To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.
Surround yourself with people that you know will take care of you. It's not so much a mistake advice - it's just advice advice.
I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into ...
Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear ...
One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And ...
I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we ...
I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am - a million times a million and to the moon and ...
I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes ...
It's ironic, really, isn't it? Nineteen-year age gap, and it's the old bloke who comes in his pants, and the twenty-something with performance issues.
He lets his hand fall, and I catch it. Because I'm weak. Because I'm a constant disappointment to myself.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.