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Don't worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don't forget who you are
The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won ...
We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary ...
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can ...
When you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comesthe necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older.
One of those people who paid for a monthly gym membership as if it were a charitable donation.
A Wet Dragonfly Can Fly Again!
David McClelland was changed by that day more than most men.
We deny our destiny because it's leading us toward happiness, and all we want is security.
Anyone who wonders what Imps look like in their Middle Years would be perhaps more than satisfied with Shelby's Phiz at the moment, - Malice ...
I detected the fragrance of Delgadina's soul as she slept on her side.
Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.
I don't have much time to sit and watch a lot of TV. And I can't really binge-watch.
Yes or no?""It's always yes with you.""Except when it's no.""If you have to keep asking because - I'll answer it as many times as you ...
There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the ...
You are your own favorite hobby. You're an expert on you.
[R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is ...
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow ...
Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.
Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which ...
Whoo, he said when he saw them. I'm drunkern shit. They sat their horses and looked down at him. Can you ride or not? said ...
Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.
I'm always in favor of more glamour. I embarrass my children, I think. I am the lady in feathers in the car pool line.
Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.
Everyone isn't going to embrace your value, but that doesn't mean you need to go and change your price.
I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much ...
Debs stood in the rain and watched him go, which I am sure she intended to make Wilkins nervous enough to leap from the car ...
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the wandering ...
When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.
You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little ... The ...
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
In the changing of the times," Abe wrote to one of his students, "they were like autumn lightning, a thing out of season, an empty ...
Please don't go away. You--you matter. To me.
I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship ...
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, ...
I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!
People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about ...
I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started ...
I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer ...
I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way ...
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why ...
Time will tell if it was well spent. Time will tell where all your ideas went. Time will allow you to achieve your goals. Time ...
Yes, I believe in God, but I don't perform a daily puja. I don't have any gurus. Ek baat hai,destiny, koi cheez hai.
It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
The terrible trade deals that Bernie [Sanders] was so vehemently against - and he was right on that - will be taken care of, far ...
I was about to be attacked by a Doberman pinscher. He was a leading character in an earlier version of this book. ***
When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in ...
I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
One moment people dicide to die, after all what happen, after all their mistakes they just want to die. They don't see a purpose - ...
[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.
A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, ...
LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
His heart belonged to this dragoness, whether she wanted it or not.And she damn well better want it.
Kinsey wanted Dellenback to film his own staff. There are three ways to read that sentence, all of them true.
Clouds of confusionrolled into illusionHe veils perversionforcing her coercionHer body he takeswhile she flies awayunbelievable, she's invisible
It was a tragic end to a heroic life.
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting ...
As Norman bride and English queen she would walk a fine line between the interests of two rulers -- her brother and her lord. Both ...
You may call an eletric eel a rubber duck but that does not make it a rubber duck and god help the poor bastard who ...
Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and ...
I'm like Demerol ... No disrespect to the Jacksons, but I kill mics.
I hear a guttural sound followed by a weak sigh and look back at the bodies. "I'm going to kill the kid," Barrons says faintly. ...
I adore you, Emilia Ward, let me worship you and I will be your dog, your slave ... anything you want. Just don't leave me.
I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred ...
My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.
It's like when you read a book and you know that the words are important, but the images blossoming in your imagination are even more ...
Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin.
He was a fat little man with short arms, short legs, a short neck, short nose, short everything in fact.
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.
We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working. And so it's ...
Louis-Cesare slowly pulled himself into a half-standing position against the side of the winery.'What? Did you think one little mage was going to do me ...
Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?
So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible ...
I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [ ... ] or juicy gossip.
Nick thought that if a succubus ever got to Alan, he would probably want to take her out to dinner and talk about her feelings ...
A Home Run Derby is fun. It's just like taking batting practice, and you just want to go deep. Guys do it every day. Yes, ...
The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the ...
I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.
Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.
The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to ...
I'm pretty crazy about the Yankees. When I can't actually watch a game, I TiVo it. I am also a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. I ...
Patience devastates us with the truth that, in essence, when we fear another, we fear ourselves; when we distrust another, we distrust ourselves; when we ...
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.
I'll be good. If I don't, you have my permission to bend me over your knee and spank the shit out of me."Oh Jesus Christ ...
Standing behind him until he turned his head. Lying next to him just before he woke up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and ...
Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.
We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.
Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid ...
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic ...
As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have ...
Do you realize how many abusers are walking around unpunished? How many rape charges are dropped because of 'insufficient' evidence, or how many date rapists ...
No more running away from something or someone or myself.
I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.
I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.