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When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.
But in the book," I say, "the mockingbird is supposed to be a symbol of innocence. That's why it's a sin to kill one.""Who says ...
There was only the kind of silence that comes when someone takes away a cloclk to be repaired and after a time you become aware ...
I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a ...
Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it ...
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. ...
The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area ...
The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.
The turkeys get you down. He then slipped the note into
My wife needs her freedom just like me.
I think L.A. is beautiful.
When I was being moved, a deputy U.S. Marshal with a Southern accent so thick it sounded like he was doing a bad parody of ...
A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, ...
I understand that coffee and cigarettes are cool, fashionable and all that. But agree the tea with cookies still taste better.
Because, you know, evil demon librarians, not so much known for the honesty policy.
I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.
Sweetheart the doctor gave you the okay, and your friends will be there. It's okay to live your life. You can't be afraid at every ...
Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be ...
Let's realize that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realize that the person we are going to correct and condemn will ...
I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and ...
When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt. So
All happy endings are ultimately an illusion created by stopping short.
In our social contract, we have provisions that see to it that you take care of people who need some help.
In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool ...
I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.
You have to be very careful when involving yourself with someone else's karma. It can quickly become your karma too.
Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to ...
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.
Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away.' It's just important, just go get checked out. It's not like ...
But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind. This
The city," he said diplomatically.
At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But ...
I went into television because I hated it so, and I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would ...
There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and ...
Music is the language of the heart; it makes our soul dance with joy.
What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.
I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging ...
They shot one of ours." The lines deepened around his grey eyes. "I'd waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crew's blood.
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
But who then was he? What could his own self really consist of? He bent over that self in order to peer into it, but ...
The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate ...
And quickly my mom put her arm around my shoulders and spun me back toward the car, walking quickly, and I was like, "Mom, what's ...
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. ...
New York has an electronic heart.
If you want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a good movie. If you don't want to buy a good movie, you'll buy a ...
When you have practiced drawing for a while ... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by ...
As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed ...
Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with ...
Now, remember, if there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are ...
Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's ...
Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees?
When we surrender to apathy and expect the world to deliver everything to us, we deliver ourselves to a slow death and we sacrifice the ...
I usually shower the night before, lay out all my clothes on the floor, so then I just fall into them, clean my teeth, stumble ...
The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. ...
All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American ...
When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more ...
Our success in life should be measured by the level of change you impart on the lives of the needy not by the amount of ...
People who roll their eyes are stupid,
I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get ...
Listening to the data is important ... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of ...
Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a
My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from ...
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
What you did was a step away from a rape.
I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.
Inner beauty is for amateurs.
An entrepreneurial mind is always looking for new opportunities.
It feels strange to have spen much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly,to just stop
My name is Constance Marie, and I am anti-princess.
I would like to see more control and more criticism coming from Europe. The constant expressions of friendship for former President Eduard Shevardnadze, who made ...
The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer ...
The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to ...
Cleanliness beings with purity of your own mind, thoughts and heart.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
I was taking a nap in the theater one day while I ditched English, when I looked up and saw Jess on the stage. I ...
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.
Probation? How amusing. Probation would imply a source of authority.
Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.
The great majority of Christians of the first few centuries did not advocate - and probably did not imagine - that such moral equality could ...
It was Friday but felt like a Monday and I didn't like that feeling. Fridays should give you that feeling of impending freedom but the ...
Jesus doesn't avoid those who mess up. Jesus runs to those who mess up.
Untie me so I can kill you.
I am proud of what I am. I am - a librarian.
I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the ...
Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.
No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will open doors for you.
Does Article 370 prevent anyone from buying property in the state?
You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.
No thought,no reflection,no analysis,no cultivation,no intention;let it settle itself.Relax "Tilopa
Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?
Be a Catholic: When you kneel before an altar, do it in such a way that others may be able to recognize that you know ...
And you thought that rock was just ugly," Shame said. "It's ugly and powerful." "No wonder you like it so much. Birds of a feather ...
Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ...
I guess that's a big problem with working with computers - you've got the luxury to keep tweaking the songs until the last second and ...
I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and ...