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There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.
Every Good Friday, this anchored but ever-changing anniversary of my accident, I go to the little creek that saved my life and light one more ...
I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.' - Julia
The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted ...
What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?
Always my soul hungered for less than it had
I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take ...
True Friends are the bacon bitsIn the salad bowl of life. How trueI read that and straight away,My thoughts turned to youAnd especially today on ...
One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn't ...
I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and ...
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.
A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they ...
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. ...
Shade for a manAnd shelter for animals,Planted in your name,May you be the same for those around you,Every year the same.
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.
When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded ...
The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a ...
I think 20 years of experience really came to fruition and enabled me to be able to play Cotton Marcus.
And the winner of the drawing that night was an eleven-year-old black girl named Dorothy Daffodil-7 Garland.
We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not ...
I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of ...
It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.
Wife number three: Lynette. She looked like a horse and kind of walked like one, too. Not surprisingly, neigh was her favorite word and seven ...
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw ...
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War ...
There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able ...
I can't believe in something that doesn't believe in me!-Salvation
Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep ...
It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his ...
I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.
President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to ...
I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' ...
I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.
I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of ...
I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and ...
Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I ...
I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority ...
There's 3 types of people in this world: there's talkers, there's watchers, and there's doers.
My books are friends that never fail me.(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)
Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. ...
Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when ...
I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for ...
Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ... ... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to ...
It's just odd being a guest at the wedding. When you dreamed about it for so long, even if you we're a different person, and ...
All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.
Consider this on your birthdayYou've got life's struggle beatenFor 60 years you've ateAnd avoided being eaten
I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine ...
To receive this incredible gift all you have to do is follow four simple steps: 1) desire it; 2) know it; 3) grow in its ...
Asking me to do ANYTHING before I've had my first cup of coffee should be an episode on 1000 Ways to DIE.
The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people ...
Don't miss out on the 365 opportunities to better the version of yourself in every aspect of your life.Happy New Year 2017
I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.
A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends.
I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United ...
When I was working on 'Men of Honor' with Robert De Niro, there's a pipe that he has in the movie, and it took us ...
I could see her smile. I wished I hadn't because it was the kind of smile she never gave to me. It was a smile ...
I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always ... I mean, it ...
Groans that words cannot express" (Rom. 8:26) are often prayers that God cannot refuse. Charles H. Spurgeon
What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film ...
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole ...
I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Open and complete the Grand Slam. I ...
Hezekiah reigned forty-two years and was one of Judah's greatest kings (2 Kings 18 - 20; 2 Chron. 29 - 32). He not only strengthened ...
I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum ...
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
I travel often, which can make maintaining a workout schedule a little difficult, but I try to make time for it whenever I can. Sometimes ...
I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of ...
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the ...
Try to spend at least 2 or 3 days every month in an ashram. Just breathing the pure air there will purify and strengthen our ...
I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.
I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about ...
Schedules on TV are so tight, and it feels like they get tighter and tighter with every passing year. The idea of asking where your ...
Yoga is the perfect vehicle for change of yourself. First by creating a strong and powerful body and mind. It is a starting point from ...
A national government is bad enough, but this administration is the largest collection of scoundrels and morons in recent memory.
I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the ...
There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece ...
You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.
Forget about the 10,000-hour rule you've heard so much about. It's a red herring. What's important is not the hours you've practiced, but the kind ...
Whatever field one choose to achieve the level of skill commensurate with the status of a world class expert, it requires 10,000 hours of practice
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 ...
And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:And yet words are no deeds.King Henry VIII. Act 3, Scene 2
I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff ...
I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, ...
When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!
Up to 700 A.D., it was assumed that the Christian family cared for their own dead. The clergy played little role in burial and none ...
Income inequality increased quite sharply in the United States during the 1920s, however, peaking on the eve of the 1929 crash with more than 50 ...
The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're ...
Why would we start demanding negotiations over sovereignty of the Falklands right now, 30 years since the war, and not 31 years or any other ...
When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold ...
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity ...
The charming grass, elegant water, fascinating winds, admirable rocks and delicate sands are never alone.
I have a 15-year-old boy, and we are about to give him car keys, which seems like an act of insanity when you know what ...
Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word "happiness" was derived from the same root "hap", similar ...
I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.