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If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

I have the most romantic husband. I do.

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told ...

The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

The left is far more concerned with attacking America - its alleged racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and economic inequality - than with fighting Islamism. ...

The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize ...

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

Oh definitely. It'll be in a hot tub, with my entire head squeezed into a jet. The photos are going to be hilarious. Man, I ...

Eric pulled a drumstick from the inner pocket of his leather vest and held it across his chest like a sword. "I shall guard this ...

People in Latin America ... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does ...

We're not doing anything until I find my sister,' I say

I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.

We can schedule for it. Thursday, April 3rd, 3:05 ... start something. We can train for it, plan for it, announce it, and even hire ...

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, ...

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always ...

Instead of crushing them and mixing them with water, she decided to take them one by one, because there is always a gap between intention ...

Everyone was going crazy, like they'd just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock ...

For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, ...

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

The kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory. ==========

Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, ...

I think my mission is to be in business so I can create a positive impact that will uplift the others around me. (p. 78)

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertivelywhich means to live authenticallyis an act of high courage. That is why so ...

As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests ...

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.

Companies that understand their links with the communities they operate in, and their impact on the environment, are most likely to prosper in the long-term

I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman ... and that really screws you up.

He must hate me, or he would have let me die.

The majesty of the American Jewish experience is in its success marrying its unique Jewish identity with the larger, liberal values of the United States. ...

Let me never become a slave to crowds.

It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have ...

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.

Isn't it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.

You hear mothers say all the time that they would die for their children, but my mom never said shit like that. She didn't have ...

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention ...

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself.

Even if we lose, what of it? We have made a song of freedom that will ring for a thousand years. No one will forget ...

How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand ...

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never ...

Monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which ...

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They ...

God is an on time God.You may not see what's ahead of you, but with the patience and guidance from God, He will give you ...

Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.

Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does ...

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Is it possible that despite our inventions and progress, despite our culture, religion and knowledge of the world, we have remained on the surface of ...

You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it's going to be successful.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight 'method' actor; as soon as he is in ...

I want that for you more than my next breath, but at some point, I have to stop existing with people who can never love ...

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

With great leverage comes great justice.

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited.

Enlightenment means having no human mind, no limitations. Your awareness is eternity, timeless, infinite, beyond boundaries, and yet it exists within all things.

Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way ...

I was named after my mother's maiden name.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few ...

He will be reminded of how trapped he is, trapped in a body he hates, with a past he hates, and how he will never ...

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one ...

You were not supposed to love me, Lark. I did not set out to make you love me. And I was not supposed to love ...

Let us then try what love can do to mend a broken world.

Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantummechanics.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, ...

I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all....They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with each other for ...

The Law of the Twelve Tables, a Roman legislation circa 450 BC, actually required a father to put to death any deformed child (Cito necatus ...

You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calculations - you have to be very ...

Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.

You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

The girl in your class who suggests that this year the Drama Club put on The Bald Soprano will be a thorn in people's sides ...

There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are ...

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know ...

Time is relative, Einstein tells us. It's an artificial construct that we have created to remind us that we are finite, mortal. The universe doesn't ...

Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every ...

I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.

The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, ...

I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of ...

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

I can't tell you where I'm going ... but I can tell you where I come from.

The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked ...

What's inside is inside for a reason.What's hidden is hidden for a reason.What's buried is buried for a reason.