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I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.
The Bible is still the only dirty book I've ever read, at least in its current incarnation as a weapon of the homophobes. Bible scholarship ...
Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog ...
And I don't recommend murder as a way of settling difficult situations. It tends to lead to complications - but not nearly as many as ...
The power and depth of Japanese acting certainly inspired me, so I was determined that Hollywood was going to get a taste of that, that ...
Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was ...
As the complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman puts it, A couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine are, in real fact, a couple ...
Shakespeare said only our bad deeds live after us," Victoria, the smart one, said. "The good is oft interred with their bones.
The sign outside the juice store had said CHANGE YOUR FUTURE WITH SUNSHINE IN A GLASS. My future was looking pretty great already, and I ...
James II's second wife, an Italian Catholic princess called Mary (at the time, there was an edict whereby all female royals were to be called ...
The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure ...
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on ...
It is People that make Buildings not Buildings that make people
This marriage is no one's business but our own.
Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, ...
If I were to live for tomorrow, I would have lived fullest for today.
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.
You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.
I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.
Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.
At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told ...
Yesterday I fell in love,today feels like my funeral,I just got hit by a bus,shouldn't have been so beautiful,dont know why I gave my heart,gave ...
People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)
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 ...
Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?"And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?
I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth] and I will keep them out somehow, even if we ...
There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is fortunate ...
I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is not to fight ...
The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy.
In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a ...
A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.
The pub door swings open when a man enters. A window of moonlit sky and sea illuminates the darkened pub, and a surge of cold ...
Fair-minded people earn the respect of their colleagues rather than demanding it.
It was around the age of 18 when I started to feel like I had learned everything I could learn from being a model - ...
When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
Freedom, too, can be a trap if you pursue it too doggedly.
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are ...
In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject ...
Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade ...
It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life ...
You have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you, because the present may be all you've got.
It might if you were male, hanging upside down naked and got nervous, then whizzed all over yourself. Gravity is not your friend at that ...
Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin ...
Little Junior Hampton was called Little Junior Hampton because his father was Big Junior Hampton, and his grandfather was Old Junior Hampton.
In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ...
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It's far more common for leftists to routinely pick up weapons and try to kill those with whom they disagree than it is for those ...
The one who asks questions does not lose his way.
No one has the right to force you to violate your own privacy.
Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good.
My face is on bubblegum wrappers now!
Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's ...
Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.
Have you understood me? Dionysus versus Christ.
In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.
Paper qualification is no longer enough in today's competitive society. You need skills that people will pay for.
As a woman lives them, she will understand more and more of these interior feminine rhythms, among them the rhythms of creativity, or birthing psychic ...
Ingrown anger is like an ingrown hair. The pain it creates in life is unbearable.
What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.
I still remember the flush of blood in her cheeks as she danced. She was all the raw colours of life, the crude beauty of ...
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
In film, you can have sad endings.
I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
World is crazier and more of it than we think,Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portionA tangerine and spit the pips and feelThe drunkenness of things ...
There's an energy that hangs between strangers even in a crowd.
He's a child with a brand new toy, and I just hope he doesn't break me as soon as I'm out of the package.
Everyone is sinful (Rom. 3:23). Therefore, we know all people will disappoint us.
Racism is a disease of white people
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to ...
For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere ...
I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."Sean glanced at him. "And?""I ...
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
It might be that some day I shall be drowned by the sea, or die of pneumonia from sleeping out at night, or be robbed ...
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
I'm always coming up with ideas that have been inspired by memories, everyday life and this and that and the other.
It's woman's power, food is. You be sure you know where'n the hook is before swallerin' it, Dru. You mind me, now.
The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that's much, much worse.
I think we should all earn our place in the world. [ ... ] We owe the world something. We owe the world everything.
Who would you be without your story?
Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear ...
Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of ...
Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.
Fair-minded people 'get in the game' rather than criticizing from the sidelines.
It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries,
I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? ...
Helpless and fearful people are drawn to magical figures, mythic figures, epic men who intimidate and darkly loom.
God's revelation has always been in deeds. God's interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the ...
Accept to die before you live; you shall live free, then accept to live before you die, you shall have a beautiful life
She had gone to a dinner party in her honor the night before the opening, and everyone had asked, with precisely the same intonation, as ...
I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
After Max's outburst at lunchtime, he steered clear of me the rest of the day, and after school, I rode out to Freak Lake to ...
My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.
Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.
Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press's microscope. But I have a feeling it's ...
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always ...
I am a wolf that my sister kept in a cage, until her hand was removed.
This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture ...