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Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!
Now that you're there, where everything is known-tell me:What else lived in that house besides us?
An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very ...
I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at ...
You soon learn there's no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and ...
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
The fact that the human act is self-directed or built up means in no sense that the actor necessarily exercises excellence in its construction. Indeed, ...
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism ...
She made struggle look beautiful; so much, even darkness feared her light
All thoughts start from emotions.
Reminds me of the red dress you wore the first time I had you. That was it for me, you know. You devastated me. There ...
If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good ...
It was always the A booth. It was always the front seat of the roller coaster. It was never Let's not get the bottle of ...
I listen mostly to live music, and mostly my musical experience was playing music with other people.
Don't chase ghosts. You'll waste your life and miss out on the love that's right here in front of you.
I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I ...
The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which ...
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication ...
Everyone has his own agenda, and it can overshadow the important thing, which is to capture a great performance. They listen to it and think, ...
He despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a ...
Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.
Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a ...
Et quid amabo nisi quod aenigma est? ("What shall I love if not the enigma?")
I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the ...
We like talking so much because we hope by our conversations to gain some mutual comfort, and because we seek to refresh our wearied spirits ...
If Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you'd either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not ...
Kids grow up in troubled homes thinking that they have the power to change their parents. Over time, they realize that they are mistaken.
To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, ...
I'm extremely organized. The more things I have to work on and can bounce back and forth between, the more energized I am.
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
Again he felt in a profound way that he was both inside and outside what he saw; that he was bith connected, and passing through. ...
I don't roll like that but I've never been with a hooker either. Yeah, that's good to say in an interview cause I feel bad ...
I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast from theWestern Daily ...
Because the easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up, I passed with flying colors.
I'll smoke weed occasionally, on special occasions like a movie night or something. I like to drink beer but whenever it comes to hard drugs, ...
Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.
Jin Quan laughed. Samantha laughed too trying to find her lost dignity
Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high ...
Even the secularist is pressed by a sense of something more - some "fullness" that wells up within (or presses down upon) the managed immanent ...
We are a great nation and will always be one Insh'Allah..love Pakistan and its people..together lets build a peaceful and positive Pakistan!
One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America and at least double ...
I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.
I am a father. My son's name is Max and my daughter's name is Billie Grace. Twelve years ago Max was born with Down Syndrome. ...
Fear and sorrow inhibit action; anger generates it. When you learn to make proper use of your anger, you can change fear and sorrow to ...
You've got a good idea, how do you make it stick?
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.
Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear ...
You were always meant to be mine." His eyes burned, his chest so painful that it felt as if his heart had burst. "Whether it's ...
Doona bring me back to life only to destroy me once more.
One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the ...
In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.
But since anagram-related clues are now inadmissible as evidence, we sent the pork pie off for DNA analysis and managed to pinpoint the pie shop ...
Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature ...
'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, ...
When you set out on you journey to Ithaka, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.
I just don't see the social good in using taxpayer money to fund a network that provides more television and bandwidth for illegally downloading files.
Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal ...
This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of ...
Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.
When Quiggin ingratiated himself with people - during his days as secretary to St. John Clarke, for example - he was far too shrewd to ...
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a ...
I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, ...
This region was the centre of the flint industry in Neolithic times. And later, it became famous for rabbits farmed for meat and felt.
How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
There is no Christian theology without the Bible. There is no Bible without an inspirited community to write, remember, and translate it, to guard it ...
Skilled arguers ... are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views. ...
Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun.
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Once upon a season, a heart was kissed by poetry. That very same heart grew into a magnificent tree. Its branches were made of pure ...
Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.
I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal ...
This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don't drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, ...
I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed? ...
When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that ...
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.
Compassion is the shortcut to connection.
He wasn't sure how it would be, butwhen Laurent saw who was beside him,he smiled, the expression alittle shy but completely genuine.Damen, who hadn't been ...
Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to ...
Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.
When two or more hearts unite, anything is possible.
There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can ...
No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .
Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit
If everyone approved, there'd be no point to it.
If the United States is the melting pot of the world, you need entertainment - you need visuals that represent that.
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.
You are capable of more than you realize. You are far more capable than you were even 12 months ago. Next year you will be ...
I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.
So you think that the coco- mark well what I say, Hastings, the coco- contained strychnine?" "Of course! That salt on the tray, what else ...
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
I'm not letting you go. I'll fight my corner. You deserve for someone to fight for you.
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll ...