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In high school I wrote an essay on baseball and my teacher told me I had to rewrite it on a more serious topic. So ...
I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
The pressure to be quintessentially black in every moment, whether it comes from the outside world or is self-imposed, keeps black people from being our ...
It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.
Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.
Wisdom lights up the world. Love lights up the universe.
God, if you recall, did not warn his people against dirty books. He warned them against high places.
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?
This world becomes heaven when we learn to see the beauty in and around us and enjoy them every moment.
You think to slide back, settle for something that made you run away because you think it's safe, because it's familiar, because your scare of ...
Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all
Schoenberg came to the crisis of modernism from a standpoint diametrically opposed to that of Schenker and Tovey: not with his finger in the dyke ...
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no ...
The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder
Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans be destroyed, dispatching troops rather ...
Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.
I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.
When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.
I didn't answer. Just shook my head and let the tears roll. "I just want it to go away. I just want all the drama ...
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those ...
I don't long for anyone,But I don't want, don't want, don't wantTo know how they kiss each other.
It would be like those epic love affairs that exploded into existence and burned white hot for all eternity. The type of love that time ...
Truth - all that matters;For it is all that endures
I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with ...
Each year, humanity died a little more. ChronoCom's charter was to fight that decline, yet things had never gotten better. Every year, there was a ...
Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.
You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience ...
Agent was lying flushed and insensible; the other, bent over his books, was making correct entries of perfectly correct transactions;
I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for ... And ...
You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.
Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is ...
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as ...
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Soon the Laughing Man has amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local ...
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read.
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really ...
Each day the sea is exactly the same. We seem no closer, and no farther from anything.
I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.
I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.
She was playing something so low and soft that it felt as if she were humming it ... notes built and subsided, as if a ...
The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.
In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.
Who we are to be is more important than what we are to do. It is the who that determines the what. If you can ...
It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been murdered; an event ...
Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me ...
Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.
That's the confidence that New York gave me. There was finally a city that appreciated what I had to say and the honesty with which ...
Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop ...
In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'
One-track mind easily predicted.
When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.
There is no greater thrill in life than to find that you are not only useful, but that you can help, and that your help ...
And When he speaks to you believe in him,
I didn't mean to fall for her, but I did. And in my fear of losing her, I did just that.
Fancies are like shadows ... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.
Be transparent like glass, be flexible like water, and be attractive like a magnet.
Others in the ancient world who denounced usury include Plato, Moses, Muhammad, Aristotle and Buddha. When a line-up like that is in agreement, it is ...
I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.
No man demands what he desires; each man demands what he fancies he can get. Soon people forget what the man really wanted first; and ...
Facing problems? Good. Even cocoon does. It makes the wings stronger you know.
I like making stories and characters that people can relate to. I also like giving the audience a departure from whatever they're thinking about in ...
I did not set out to make you love me. And I was not supposed to love you. But I do. And it is terrible." ...
It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps ...
Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments ...
Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost ...
There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you ...
Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that ...
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification ...
When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one ...
There is no cause for nostalgia save the good and life-enhancing nostalgia for the present.
You've got to have the right attire for the right event. I attend a lot of dinners, a lot of concerts, and I have to ...
His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi's kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the ...
When I was 15 years old, I used to actually dream I was pitching in Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey was my catcher.
Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.
I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up
Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious ...
God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.
We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we ...
It seems ironic to suggest that some of us may be called to build community in our churches, for the church as it was meant ...
The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes ... of universal ...
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
It's an awful world out there. You've got to make people happy.
You do not allow these to flow, which is to say to be released; therefore, they have no choice but to stagnate. Good impulses die ...
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your ...
Keep learning science, kids.
The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage.
The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of ...
Love finds you. You always get smacked with love when you least expect it.
I shouldn't get a thrill out of seeing her upset, but when her nose crinkled that way and her eyes heated, I couldn't help but ...
Life is more than having perfect photographs edited via some random applications. It's imperfect, each and every moment, one by one.
Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.
Then there's the way you krazak your G'ardrgh," said Corporal Littlebottom. "I won't even ask," said Vimes. "I'm afraid I can't explain in any case," ...
Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".