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I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.
It took us two years to get our first real gig. That was a big dream. We ended up booking a lot of our own ...
We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.
As to how you'll help me," he says. "Well, we have met the Answer, have we not?" He turns back to look at us, his ...
There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy ...
For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all ...
Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in ...
There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.
No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows ...
I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.
When I worked in a medical practice, our practice provided the insurance. When I retired the next day to run for public office to run ...
When you're a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off," he said. His mind was now fully open ...
Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any ...
Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.
It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as has value is, ...
I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's ...
The primary reward of the gospel - God himself
You are not your skin. You are not your body. You are a soul. You are a cell in the body of the Divine. You ...
I know men laugh about this. About being pussy-whipped. About panting like a dog after a girl. About wanting a woman more than you want ...
In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven ...
This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.
We tend to think things are new because we just discovered them.
Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost ...
Life is one of Gods greatest Journeys, But Death is the next great Adventure.
But trying to conjure my mother was like trying to hum a song I'd never heard.
I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket! But I got a little tired of the redundancy.
Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, ...
Everything we do is political," she says. "Even the things we choose not to do.
It is education that grows flowers in innocent minds to reveal beauty.
The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He ...
I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a ...
I miss the beginning stages when you didn't know what to expect. When everything was fresh, just experiencing it for the first time. That's something ...
I'm a fucking razor-arsed starship, you maniac! I'm not male, female or anything else except stupendously smart and right now tuned to smite. I don't ...
This, I thought, was why the bees and birds landed on him--he clearly had a whole world inside him with rivers of honey and a ...
I tend the wounded,/and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.
I moved to the center of the room, my strappy sandals clacking on the marble floor. "I'm assuming this is where the punishment part comes ...
I don't want to stay here overnight,' said Harry angrily, sitting up and throwing back his covers. 'I want to find McLaggen and kill him.
I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way tooSo I know I would rather die trying to know ...
No soul willfully does wrong.
Has anyone ever noticed that when ethnic Australians excel in sport they are heralded "Aussies"; but when something goes wrong they are thrown the "go ...
You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
I didn't know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i'd forgotten. Sort of like a splinter ...
Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.
Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out ...
I always saw myself as a multi media artist.
Between the pages of a book is a divine place to be.
Watching people just look out for themselves, I think, is extremely interesting. It goes right back to something like 'The Beggar's Opera' - the underbelly ...
I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the fruit of their ...
Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found ...
I began to realize that I had tended to avoid some people because of my instant conclusions about who they were and what they would ...
Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!
A zombie pretending to be a zombie pretending to be a zombie. Made me dizzy.
The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, ...
I have notes in my bathroom, yellow notes, and I stick 'em on the mirror, things that happened that were uplifting boosters for me. Notes ...
In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people ...
I imagine watching Gale volunteering to save Rory in the reaping, having him torn from my life, becoming some strange girl's lover to stay alive, ...
Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.
I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression ...
The formula for the circuit of capital: M-C...P...C'-M', is the self-evident form of the circuit of capital only on the basis of already developed capitalist ...
The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
Impulsive passion please set me free.
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
When those blades cut, they cause tears that feed the well of Urdr that lies beside the world tree, and the well gives the water ...
I'm in 'Madagascar 2.' I'm Testy the Lion. The franchise moves to Africa, and Bernie Mac is also in the film. I loved working for ...
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.
It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.
She thought no one could see her. I thought she was beautiful.
MamaMamaI want so many things ... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy ...
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.
Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke ...
Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.
Good enough'isn't enough.
God will provide the food, but he will not cook the dinner.
We may call it "people pleasing," but it is entirely self-serving because it is really all about keeping myself comfortable. Boiled down, it could be ...
I focused very hard on the dead geranium in his line of vision. I thought if I could make it bloom he would have his ...
The nature of the music business is such that it's better to have a few chances for some things to be successful than just one, ...
For me, everything that you're passionate about always comes with a little pain. That's how life is, and that's how I want to live it. ...
Reading trumps anything.
There was a man of the cloth - Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church - who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There ...
I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.
I was raised Catholic. Guilt is my resting state.
I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I ...
Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, ...
I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? ...
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
Every kid that goes to Catholic school believes he's going to be a priest one day.
I knew what is was like to have people stare at you with pity. For everyone's gaze to follow you through the hallways as though ...
Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the ...
Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want ...
Human Reason cannot be reduced to the result of evolutionary adaptation; art is not just a heightened procedure of providing sensual pleasures, but a medium ...
Now he found out a new thingnamely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a ...
Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. ...
Know the difference between famous and great.
Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.