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There you have the definition of being human: we don't want new things, we want things that feel new.
I want to see riots! I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people! I want ...
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
So many amazing opportunities arise when a chapter of our life ends. When we resign from a job that we weren't happy in, or even ...
My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must ...
Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA ...
And I liked that he had two names. I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you ...
Pretending that something doesn't exist if it's hard to quantify leads to faulty models. You've already seen the system trap that comes from setting goals ...
We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud ...
I am the hunter. I am always the hunter. You are the prey.
Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast ...
Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.
He stood straight then, moving to stand directly in front of me as he dropped low and bowed dramatically. Your Majesty.
It's a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn't mean you can sit back ...
Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.
Never think that you have reached the final stage of knowledge and nobody knows more than yourself. Remember! Above everyone endowed with knowledge is another ...
The Bible is primarily concerned with the story of man's redemption as it is in Jesus Christ. If you read Scripture and miss the story ...
Like Ada Lovelace, Turing was a programmer, looking inward to the step-by-step logic of his own mind. He imagined himself as a computer. He distilled ...
How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent ...
I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision ...
Who are your heroes?" asked Jo."Grandfather and Napoleon.
Maybe, just maybe Vahanian thought, an outlaw turned noble has an outside chance with a noble turned outlaw.
It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.
Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
I used to wonder what it would look like if all my footsteps were painted red: all the steps I'd ever taken in all the ...
Treat sins that your children struggle with like basic math. Practice, Practice, and you'll get it.
No, I do a bunch of things to entertain myself. I paint, I make music, I take photographs.
Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
What's with books and soldiers? I wonder. The whole bloody army is turning into pansy intellectuals.
John Mandrake was an attractive young man, and the scent of power hung about him, sweet and intoxicating, like honeysuckle in the evening air.
I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.
Every male secretly wants sex with Brad Pitt.
You cannot claim to support individuality if you aren't willing to trust other human beings.
Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
I owe my life to my hobbies - especially stamp collecting. ...
He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.
My fans will tell you all day that I can rap. That's all I need.
If you look to the downtrodden and wonder why they can't pull themselves out of poverty and get a nice job like you, you are ...
I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much.
I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers ...
Okay, first of all, I didn't sleep with you to make amends. I slept with you because I wanted to."He still didn't say anything, and ...
Samantha as I finished up telling the random freshman about my time with Keanne. "Well, it was the end of August, and it
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
Writing is a window into our souls.
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we ...
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still ...
Quantum physics really begins to point to this discovery. It says that you can't have a Universe without mind entering into it, and that the ...
With limited training data, a more constrained model tends to perform better.
He had no racial feeling - not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where ...
The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.
Beauty. We must know for our comfort that Christ was not anointed to this great work of Mediator for lesser sins only, but for the ...
I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite ...
When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece ...
I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,Irrecoverably dark, total eclipseWithout all hope of day!
Moreover, the more deeply a view is ingrained, the less likely we will see it as influencing us - or see it at all. If ...
To be in New York, to be an adult, to stand on a raised platform of wood and say other people's words! - it was ...
I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.
What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.
Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital ...
Anything that distracts from the story you are trying to tell should be promptly and mercilessly dealt with.
I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.
Most students don't trust their own insights and questions when they are reading a biblical assignment. They expect that there must be a point, a ...
I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story!
The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to ...
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It ...
There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.
It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's ...
What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?
There were two problems with this idea. First, it led to crappy "virtual reality" movies like Virtuosity and The Lawnmower Man. And second, in the ...
I'm not comfortable, for myself and for others. And yet, one has these people whom you trust, have faith in, whom you believe see what ...
I quite like being mobbed. After all, it is extremely nice to be recognised. That's what acting is all about - being recognised.
I promise you, the president has a big stick. I promise you. (April 26th 2012)
Le mauvais gout mene au crime.' The
I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective ...
Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.
There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.
It is not attention that the child is seeking, but love.
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.
There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question ...
There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once did I imagine ...
So what would make you happy?" "Well, if I knew that, I'd do it.
Nothing is what it seems. Favoured Pashtu proverb of Jan Fishan Khan.
They looked at me, and were so full of delight in the pleasure they were giving me that some final thread of resistance gave way ...
Our educational system should make the Filipino fit not just for whatever jobs happen to be on offer today, but also for whatever economic challenge ...
I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is ...
I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my ...
Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.
I used to be scared of women. When I was very young they terrified me, but discovering the female universe was incredible and still is ...
The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to ...
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh ...
I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.
Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive ...