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Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.
We see that the enlightened monopolist can occasionally prove a delusional paranoid.
Love has a way of making us stupid, Will Henry. It blinds us to certain blatant realities, in this case the spectacularly high mortality rate ...
It's a razor's edge kind of innocence, which relies on a willingness to be duped for the sake of transcending ordinary experience, for the sake ...
In a love affair, most seek an eternal homeland. Others, but very few, eternal voyaging. These latter are melancholics, for whom contact with mother earth ...
If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.
Religion is for human, Humans are not for human....
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn ...
You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.
The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at ...
I smiled sweetly and pushed up on my tiptoes, kissing him softly on his too-chapped lips, and agreed. Yes, to us.
I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom ...
I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ...
Let China's earth, enrich'd with colour'd stains, Pencil'd with gold, and streak'd with azure veins, The grateful flavour of the Indian leaf, Or Mocho's sunburnt ...
I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in ...
To be just meaans to recognize the other as other; it means to give acknowledgment even where one cannot love ... A just man is ...
Nothing from the ocean is meant to survive on land forever.
I don't-" I shake my head. ( ... ) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let ...
I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.
History is no more than memories refreshed.
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary ...
Big matches on the big stage are often decided at the back.
Don't fall in love with your leading man. Of course, that's just what I did.
At that meeting he was struck for the first time by the endless variety of men's minds, which prevents a truth from ever presenting itself ...
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
Dwight Eisenhower said, "Take as much time as you can to make a decision, but when you are out of time, decide and move forward.
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.[Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]
There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk ...
I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'
Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking ...
My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots ...
The air smelled like testosterone and manflesh again. (That was a thing, right?)
The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.
Yeah, but before anything, I think in 6 years somehow I've grown up to have a beautiful home, 2 beautiful stepchildren, a beautiful husband, my ...
Come on, where did you learn to fight? Miss Manners' School for Girls? My baby sister could hit harder than you when she was three ...
I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life. Like, if I ...
A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the ...
I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when ...
Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam ... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the ...
I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real ...
A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us ...
I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open myself up ...
Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before ...
If we all do one random act of kindness daily, we just might set the world in the right direction.
In my position, the right witchdoctorMight have caught you in flight with his bare hands,Tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other,Godless, happy, quieted.I managedA ...
If a man, in a lifetime of 50 years, can point to six songs that are immediately identifiable, he has achieved something. Irving Berlin can ...
The moreness of him was beginning to show. The way ruins were excavated by an archaeologist. Brushstroke by brushstroke. Bit by bit.
The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.
We need to have mentoring programs energized by government, paid for by government, but who exist not because of government. Teen Challenge is a way ...
Then again it may be said, there is a purpose above each purpose, and there is again a purpose under each purpose; and yet beyond ...
You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story ...
If you come up with the original idea on your laptop, anything else is an embellishment of that idea. It's nice to have the option ...
The devadasis have a multilayered story, a story in which poverty, deprivation and injustice against women is central - but what has happened to them ...
If we have any unforgiveness, bitterness, selfishness, pride, anger, irritation, or resentment in our hearts, our prayers will not be answered.
When your heart is broken, don't go silent - speak to God in his own language ...
His kiss was a once in a lifetime kiss. It was the kind of thorough, heart-melting, stomach-plummeting, mind-numbing, soul-enriching kiss that altered lives.
Want to know what heaven is going to be like? Go to church.
Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.
A man with a missing eye after a man with a missing finger. There's a song in there somewhere, I reckon.
Making sense? what fun is there in making sense?"~ Discord
Only an academic could state the obvious and pass it off as wisdom." -Moist Von Lipwig (T.P., Going Postal)
One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that ...
Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!
Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed.
Fear not the waking world, my mortal, Fear not the flat, synthetic blood, Nor the heart in the ribbing metal. Fear not the tread, the ...
Some would say karma, but Javier never much believed in that. What he did believe in was that sooner or later, everyone will be at ...
The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just ...
On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, ...
Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.
Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the ...
My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends meet, Dee, a friend of my mom's ...
I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it.
Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart ... It's sad, but a relief as well ...
Rubber-soled shoes squeaking on the shiny Marmoleum.
Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place ...
It's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for.
If women become too much like men, men lose purpose, meaning, and inspiration in life.
He bowed at the dark, straightened, tossed his hat over his shoulder, and, carrying the muleta in his left hand and the sword in his ...
The myosin in our own skeletal muscles is more closely related to the myosin driving the flight muscles of that irritating housefly buzzing around your ...
Do you think people love having jobs, Sylvia asks Peter in because they offer a condoned but false responsibility that masks, for at least eight ...
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
Resembling in his spectacles and nothing else (from the waist down the table concealed him; anyone entering the room would have taken him to be ...
I took a lot time to do the first album, and I was really happy about that album. I co-wrote the songs and it was ...
Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid ... whose tattoo is on my ...
Before Alaska came along and ruined everything, one of every twenty-five square miles in America was Montanan. This much space has nurtured a healthy Cult ...
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud ...
The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn't the absence of fear, but the mastery ...
AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.
I definitely want to thank my doctor, Dr. Sandy, um, my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot, thank you so much.
[From Pale Horse, Pale Rider]The road to death is a long march beset with all evils. . .
My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, 'You can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar ...
Whatever is going on inside your head has everything to do with how well you end up performing.
For each of us is A separate miracleIn a collective miracleBrought together For a momentBy a group of notesAnd a scan of wordsFrom the heart ...
It's only the sea,' said Moomintroll. 'Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn't go inside ...
I only worked theater jobs, but they were all really silly when I first graduated. I was a line monitor at 'Spamalot,' which means I ...
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.