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Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real ...

Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike the Iran we ...

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other ...

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.

Today the U.S. government can demand the nation-wide recall of defective softball bats, sneakers, stuffed animals, and foam-rubber toy cows. But it cannot order a ...

A necklace of pearls on a white neck.We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began ...

It was dusk and the light had an ultra-violet quality to it, a final burst of pigmentation as night and day rushed at each other ...

The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.

I knew a woman named Hope once, and boy did she fill me with her first name.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew ...

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

Don't be a jerk.

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God ...

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.

Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not ...

The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past ...

Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying ...

What had happened to the old Jack Grammar, the one who would have flubbed it somehow?Well, I reasoned: I could still flub it. Let the ...

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my ...

In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.

I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so ...

I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be ...

The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed ...

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was ...

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

For a moment I considered finishing the job with Katherine's knife, but it's good insurance to let ineffective jailers live.

Well, the cigar I smoke takes two hours.""When a man loves a woman....O to have such a lover...""I gave up a $100,000 lifestyle to take ...

Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the ...

Those two moods are so different! Is everyone in your family like that?"...."Unquestionably."Baden nodded. "Good to know. I'll buy a shield and some binoculars.

Shivering, she would lie awake imagining her veins sluggish with frozen blood, ice crystals weaving a coral-like shining net around her heart. Her dreams were ...

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt ...

At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines.

Everywhere in nature we are taught the lessons of patience and waiting. We want things a long time before we get them, and the fact ...

How many bones did he set?" I cared about it much less than they did. It's my Florence Nightingale calm, I suppose.There was a pause."Twenty-seven," ...

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made ...

I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's ...

Forgers can start with the same photographic images Warhol did, and sometimes knock off silkscreens only an expert can distinguish from the originals.

I would need ... daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I ...

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of ...

Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art ...

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, ...

Though the fig tree may not blossom, Nor fruit be on the vines; Though the labor of the olive may fail, And the fields yield ...

The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh.

A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that ...

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, ...

Dancy closes her eyes, remembering all the times that have been so much worse than this, all the horror and shame and sorrow to give ...

Shit was getting geological, yo.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That ...

I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love. There are some things in life that are worth fighting for ...

Say what you doin and not what you finna do

A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage ...

Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the ...

You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance.

The dog that I was given on The Hills for Christmas is with my best friend's family.

Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to ...

There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take ...

I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it ...

I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.

It has been said that if you aim at nothing in life, you are likely to hit nothing! I have never had anyone come to ...

At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the ...

Only God can set the soul in bondage free.

Although I'm tired, and it feels like years since I had a good night's rest, I can't bring myself to fall asleep. It's like I've ...

Be resilient until you complete a task. Challenge yourself and never limit yourself. Stay humble, hopeful, patient, but never quit!

Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes ...

A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews ...

Don't be an asshole," the guy snapped as he cracked a freshie."Oh, right, because two in this group would be overkill.

God in eternity looked upon me forseeing my faultness, my pride, my sin and said 'I want that man in my family, i will pay ...

Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her, said Jeffrey.

In order to optimize health, the body needs to be in relaxation response the majority of the time so the body's natural disease-fighting mechanisms can ...

To be hopeful in an artistic sense it is not necessary to think that the world is good. It is enough to believe that there ...

If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me.

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in ...

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone ...

Nor is faith meritorious; it is simply confidence in the goodness of God, and the lack of it is a reflection upon God's holy character.

Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except ... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing ...

As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued in that this variety of humans was more ...

Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.

So back over the sledding hill, across the iced-up pond, past the snowman with the funny hat, under the giant shimmering icicles and up the ...

She's my fantasy come to life. A dream come true.

Maybe it was cold and miserable in the forest, but man can bring his own warmth and comfort anywhere he goes.

The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and ...

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize ...

In 1905, Freud wrote: "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him ...

Poor Flemps and his wife - they little thought what a serpent of deduction they had been nourishing in their cab.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is ...

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the ...

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take ...