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Don't tell me I'm "too tall" just because my height happens to threaten your rather fragile sense of masculinity. The fact that men cannot look ...

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in ...

In the USA in 1978, they mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three fold increase in the reported incidence of whooping cough.

Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's ...

With the permanent elimination of this tax, farmers and business owners will have the sense of security they need to plan for the financial future ...

Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically ...

You can't go back. Can't fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference." She pushed away ...

Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament.

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, ...

Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of ...

His fish smells fishier than the others- he is sure of it. Perhaps he has been poisoned.

Fake it til you make it. Just make it.

Art ... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the ...

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other ...

Don't ask me why I obsessively look to rock 'n' roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it's just ...

Because those four days in the mountains, they changed us. I gave you a piece of me. And you must have given me a piece ...

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the ...

Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye ...

I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at ...

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than ...

Is there a reason why you're standing there, staring out the window and watching the neighbors? Are we preparing to kill them and drag them ...

You are not a lost cause. You are a hawk who has had her wings clipped for so long that she had forgotten to fly. ...

She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been ...

Life is a game of snakes and ladders, sir. You are steadily progressing accros the board, rolling sixes on the dice and thinking you are ...

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,Delightful industry enjoy'd at home,An Nature, in her cultivated trimDress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad -Can he ...

Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.Acts 13:38

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human ...

Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift.

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, ...

I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned?

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the ...

What you radiate outward in your thoughts, feelings, mental pictures and words, you attract into your life.

Life comes at you fast. It runs through your body and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. It's a lot like ...

How short our happy days appear!How long the sorrowful!

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance

By putting you into an enchanted sleep and allowing you to postpone the moment when you would have to think about what has happened tonight, ...

I was drowning, and I could not recall the last time it had happened so completely. "Voglio fare l'amore con te," he whispered into my ...

I felt a confusion unspeakable at again seeing him, from the recollection of the ridotto adventure: nor did my situation lessen it; for I was ...

So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.

The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.

It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring ...

My best friend is the most important girl, outside of family, to me. I met her when I went to college and we bonded immediately. ...

Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach ...

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working ...

Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, ...

He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reducing the budget deficit year by year, until ...

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

I believe we all have the right as private citizens to endorse candidates and participate in the political process.

A little light in the dark night A faint voice is calling you This way! This way! This flickering, wavering little voiceLike dew, like a ...

Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; ...

Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.

Do not love me as if I were a flower!I want to live a worthy life - as an atom in a mass of troublesas ...

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set ...

We are well,' Efuru replied. 'It is only hunger.''It is good that it is only hunger. Good health is what we pray for.

I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the ...

Lets Rock Cancer's World

My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory.

You're like my favorite song, Nova. The one that I never want to forget. That I want to play over and over again.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

But even though I felt her presence, I also felt the habitual fruitlessness of thinking about her. Her images, partly memories of her, partly memories ...

I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

You got to take care of yourself. If I exercise or I eat proper foods, am I indulging myself? That's called feeding your body.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false ...

No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing ...

What could be more exciting than an October day? It's your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let ...

But what do you think, my lady?''I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a ...

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about ...

Not for the first time Spooner was reminded that marriage was not the straighforward assembly the instruction book led you to believe.

Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail ... A man in the crowd ...

I love spaghetti and sex, sometimes together. My dream of heaven is walking naked through fields of pasta fazool.

The key role of entrepreneurs, like the most crucial role of scientists, is not to fill in the gaps in an existing market or theory, ...

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.

I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. ...

Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was ... I'll be talking to my ...

Everyone seemed to think that violence was an acceptable risk and a foregone conclusion for prostitutes, call girls and streetwalkers alike. There was almost an ...

What's a TH?""A Traffic Hazard," Heeb clarified."Oh you mean because the woman is so hot she'll take your eyes off the road?" Narc confirmed."Exactly.

Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in ...

Harry and Ron both made furious moves toward Malfoy, but Hermione got there first - SMACK! She had slapped Malfoy across the face with all ...

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in ...

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, ...

The funny thing is you oddly don't really say goodbye to all the characters you've played. There's like a chest of drawers in your head ...

Aware of how tenuous life can be. How too many things go unsaid or undone. How we wait too long and miss the chance." "Miss

How slowly life moves when you're dead. Another day, another hour, another night in bed. I want to live awake. I've been sleeping. Sleepwalking.

I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility ...

My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting ...

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate ...

Only kings are put in writing, you know. Kings and heroes. The rest of us are but fading echoes in the valley of eternity.

I don't fire up the prose. I just tell it straight and don't fool around with it.

'The State' was a huge thing for me. I watched that and 'SNL' together when I was 15, 16.