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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining ...

God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

She had died and joined the Marine Corps. Or was God an aging general? Either way, she knew it couldn't be heaven 'cause there was ...

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, ...

I probably could have handled things a hell of a lot better, but what do you do when someone shoves a grenade at you, pulls ...

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no more.

Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.

Music, Schopenhauer wrote, is not unconscious arithmetic, as Leibniz had claimed, but unconscious philosophy, since in music the inner essence of the world, which is ...

Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

The anchor of my life is the grace of God.

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

May the glorious light brighten your path.

Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ...

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the ...

Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.

Nature never deceives us;it is always we who deceive ourselves.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best ...

What is she to him?" I try not to sound jealous or like I'm fishing for information, but I am on both counts. "She," he ...

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Yesterday and Tomorrow only happen Today.

Sometimes we underestimate the impact we have on other people's lives. Everybody living, no matter how miserable his or her life may be or how ...

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by ...

I would like for people to appreciate the album musically whether they knew how it was made or not.

As usual, the oldest women were the most decorated, and the ugliest the most conspicuous. If there was a beautiful lily, or a sweet rose, ...

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than v jewels.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other ...

There were a story scripted on the wall, no words used though, just pictures, memories, from another world. Her happy place.

I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on ...

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The most important person to thank is ... my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take ...

Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, ...

What are you doing, Potter?" said Snape coldly as ever, as he strode over to the four of them. "I'm trying to decide what curse ...

Soon the evening gloom would materialize, infect the fibre-filled air, drape itself over her bed, depress her from now till morning.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, ...

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, ...

If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. ...

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Excuse is the tool of the incompetent. A monument of nothingness, and those that use it are not wise.

Any woman who doesn't have a little bit of whore in her is pretty much a dried up stick.

Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, ...

No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and ...

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes ...

Perhaps she had received diamonds, Strike thought; she had always said she didn't care for such things, but when they argued the glitter of all ...

Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul.

I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition.

The more we read, the more we discover.

Remember to enjoy everything. The things that feel good, the things that hurt. It's all gonna make you better. Stronger.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value ...

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

Take me with you?" she asked, reaching for is arm. He looked back at were the four women stood watching them and shook his head."I've ...

Because love and hate were supposed to stand cleanly on opposite sides of the spectrum. The division seemed as clear as ... well, angels and ...

Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to ...

The Bleach You are your hair and your eyes and your thoughts. You are what you look at and what you feel and what you ...

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

It is my firm belief that action on the issues that matter for Africa must emerge from within Africa itself.

The house had been torn down. Nothing is left but the old white fence. There used to be privet bushes everywhere. "The smell of privet ...

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

He was too gorgeous for words and worst yet he knew it.

To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension. ...

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.

You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success ...

Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved.

If we just stick to one kind of music, our creativity is limited. We wanted to extend the audience for the cello, especially the younger ...

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most ...

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

A family will visit constantly, daily or even twice a day. Then maybe every other day. Then just weekends. After months or years, the visits ...

My eyes were closed, they're open now

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination ...

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to ...

I chose the Xperia based on its functions. Apart from using the phone to communicate, I also use it to take pictures. The image quality ...

You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

There's a world I could do without: public underwear showings. There was a time in my lifetime when you had to open a J.C. Penney ...

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female ...

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

My will is pushed on only by the small grey hellcat who nips at my heels.

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

Invest less at the end of the month. Brokers tend to push stocks at the end of the month in an effort to match or ...

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, ...

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The ...

Life is short and a man should take pride in his work, even if his work makes him feel like a total loser

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing ...

When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

Look, they're wearing light blue gauzy frozen superhero capes because I have told them that Anna is a junior superhero with a black sister and ...

When life gets tangled there's something so reassuring about climbing a mountain. The challenge is unambiguous.

I feel you. Inside. In the parts of me I crushed the night my mother died. No matter how I tried to keep you out, ...

I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into graphic design and ...

Whenever the boss has 'fun' activities, there's got to be a parable or a lesson. Employees feel like they're supposed to be taking notes.