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I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you ...

You don't wanna hear the truth, so I'ma lie to you ... make it sound fly to you.

Fuck history. Fuck love. Fuck fate. Fuck happiness. Fuck mind-blowing sex. Fuck it all.

The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and ...

Dennis, please. I don't know what-""Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing ...

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think ...

Perhaps the image you have of the devil is a cartoon of a man in a red suit with horns a pointy tale and a ...

I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms ...

If you're really serious about protecting people's incomes, you've got to consider how you're going to protect the dollar. If you don't have the dollar ...

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

It was like the whole town was swimming in failure, but no one realized they were drowning.

Genetics and epigenetics are far more important in sexuality than any idea of choice. No evidence has been found that anyone chooses their sexuality. Choice ...

Maybe paint-thinner is the key to ambition.

The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He ...

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

The centre of gravity of any parallelogram lies on the straight line joining the middle points of opposite sides.

Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.

A business capability is the firm's ability to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal and external competences to address rapidly changing environments.

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is ...

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and ...

Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't expect this from ...

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than ...

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no ...

The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.

And Jasmine, royal princess and daughter of the sultan..." the little old religious man trailed off, confused. "I'm sorry, daughter. I don't remember all of ...

Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit.(Zoe on meeting Justus)

As the vision faded, the past and the present seemed to merge.

The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and ...

The bad things can't matter more than the good things

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

Hux?" she had asked shakily. "What are you doing?" "You said you wanted me," Huxley whispered in her ear, and it had sent shivers down ...

I think people know that I've got a good heart.

What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an ...

Fate could twist you around and around if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd wind up in ...

I always put a little bit of restrictions on myself, and I only do it for my creativity.

This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is the primal pain, what we ...

With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world. It's kind of ...

Don't mess with me! I'm a black-belt!

We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.

Since we ate taking orders, get me some sunchips!

My first wife didn't like to fly, either.

The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that ...

You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want ...

Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete ...

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

The Easter Bunny could have come down the chimney armed with machine guns and opened fire on the house, and everyone would have been less ...

An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

Brigan threw his head back and smiled at the sky. Well said, Lady. The world may be falling to pieces, but at least the lot ...

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Submitting to history allows us to remember our society's past. Although writing and art express history, it's our humanity which keeps all of us striving ...

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she ...

Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.

Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, ...

You criticize, I improvise.

This place has its own mini version of a cafeteria, complete with a couple of old ladies in hairnets dishing out tasteless gruel from behind ...

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn't require us ...

I would love to be directed by more women.

It was his fault too," Fredrick said. "He never really asked her why. It was like he didn't want to know.

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it ...

The devil made me do it.And by devil, I mean my uterus.

I like to rub Twinkies under my arms.

I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that ...

Praise with elationPraise every morningSpring's re-creationOf the First Day!

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

If you think killing people is a solution to a problem, I not only disagree with you but also I hate your perspective.

They hadn't been good months. About as ugly as a wet warthog and as messed up as a bumblebee in a snowstorm.

If you have a sorrow that you cannot tell to anyone, you can go to our Father in Heaven.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food ... or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual ...

Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

No, I mean why are you here? You just happen to be at the same place I am? The girl who believes in coincidence always ...

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

Edward Progers was his Majesty's Page of the Backstairs. He handled private money transactions, secret correspondence, and served in an ex-officio capacity as the King's ...

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how ...

Beneath the wide banner announcing the 1996 Expo, dozens of stands and display cases were set up around the showroom floor, presenting the latest developments ...

Believing in George Bush was so ludicrous that believing in God almost seems rational.

I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in ...

Sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between ...

Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds in ...

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who ...

Do you know what it takes to do [a global art project]? People, energy, glue.

To get a script like 'Death Proof' and to get cast in it just affirmed that I want to do character work; that's where my ...

We have the right assets for a fast-growing digital business.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

Did I ever mention I used to be a delivery driver too? I was. I can read a map. What's more, using a brilliant mixture ...

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'