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There is a high price for cheap thrills.

I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.

I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be ...

How do they rise up?

What's important is the work that you're doing, not the country that you're in. I would much rather be in a play at the Royal ...

Though I should have known better, I had to ask. "What is furniture disease?"She looked at me like I had the IQ of a grape. ...

I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and ...

People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size.

Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves

I was seven when he hung himself, and I don't remember all that much, and anything I did remember, I've managed to forget.

Cookies were much better eaten then sold, and they were best homemade.

Take Obama's challenge, in January 2010, to the assembled CEOs at the Forum on Modernizing Government: "If you can book dinner on OpenTable, or a ...

None of us knows anything, not even whether we know or do not know, nor do we know whether not knowing and knowing exist, nor ...

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part ...

Only the conscious mind sleeps - the unconscious is always aware.

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting ... and usually worth the wait.

Once through this ruined city did I passI espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked'What knowest thou of this wilderness?'It replied: 'I can ...

I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being ...

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take ...

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

Because I'm such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

Your history will be depend by your actions.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

But cancer can also be fun with its luncheons, theatre parties, and fund raising luaus ... What will they all do if a cure comes ...

It's all a big racket; they're playing it on themselves. I mean, a gun goes through a famous battle, like the Meuse-Argonne, and it's the ...

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds ...

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what ...

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We ...

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Everything is dead, the dead are everywhere. There are only people, and all around them is silence - that's the earth.

The page contained a single, unfamiliar symbol. It looked like a backward S with the diagonals of an open triangle cutting through it. A straight ...

For it's home, dearie, homeit's home I want to be.Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.O, the oak and the ash and the ...

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.

Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

He remembers looking up in his jail cell and seeing a needle of sunlight poking through, and trying to cradle that tiny pinhole of light ...

...A thing that is worth doing at all is worth doing badly... le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

You are never old to begin self-seeking.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

You are the most powerful army in the world; you are the future of this planet. You cannot, you will not spend one more minute ...

Kings" and "Kingdoms" were as thick in Britain as they had been in little Palestine in Joshua's time, when people had to sleep with their ...

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

When we locked eyes, the ease of his stare and the welcome of a smile made me feel like one of two fixed points in ...

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

My mom and I built a guest house on my property so that my mom could help me fostering animals. I do multiple fosters a ...

The squashy earth-colored sofas, the tall cups of American froth, the wholesome young people working with quiet efficiency

The good guys are the ones who wander. The ones with the ocean spilling from their chests.

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of ...

When we bless one another we shouldn't expect returned favours because blessings have no strings attached and they hold no sorrow.

Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us ... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them ...

We are all broken - that's how the light gets in.

If you stop to think about it, you'll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters ...

Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.

Two human beings have such difficulty in understanding each other - there is nothing so sad as two human beings.

You should never think you know everything'.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. ...

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a ...

If you never bother to say the words, why should anyone believe you ever felt them?

Like heavy-duty Tupperware, Blayne kept bouncing back.

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the ...

This book probably makes it seem as if I hate myself and everything I do. I mostly just hate every person I've ever *been* - ...

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish ...

Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.

Only the one who fully understands the importance of time can enjoy it.

I would have sold London if I could find a buyer.

In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of ...

Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.

For me to give my advice to somebody who's thinking about going back to an ex or keeps on going back to their ex, you'll ...

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never ...

Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what ...

It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I ...

The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do ...

I guess God can be whatever God wants to be. Maybe God's so great that even our little rules about material reality and our tiny ...

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane ...

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy ...

Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there ...

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that ...

The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

'G.I. Joe' is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows ...

The non-stop music wrapped a warm cocoon around her body. People's thoughts, rapid words flowed around her, without doing her any harm. She was part ...

Be the person you wanna meet

I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let ...

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.