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What the commands of mathematicians, God, and playwrights have in common seems to be this, that the mere act of speaking suffices to bring about ...

My family came in 1635 from England and settled in Williamsburg. Shortly after, they split up; half went to New England and half stayed in ...

Truth Matters "Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, ...

A good hamburger mix: add equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, onion powder and some chopped onion. And mix in a little barbecue ...

Rather than being about what foods to avoid and why, The Essential Good Food Guide is an introduction or a reminder of what good food ...

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets ...

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. ...

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some ...

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

Love can be found mainly amongst stars

I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do ...

I am kind of giant ... on (the True Blood) set.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

I think when you go to a store and you go to the Justin Timberlake page and stream it from there, that's great, but that ...

God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families ... When a man and a woman ...

I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently ...

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and ...

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

Secret 7591.42.21. Avoiding weasel words in your intelligence analysis isn't easy when your intelligence analysis is about weasels.

Many students described their parents' support in nonacademic activities as being equal to their support in school. Importantly, they felt this support was instrumental in ...

The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children ...

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Form is never more than an extension of content.

How the hell old is she? "You're not in junior high, are you?" "God no. I've just never held anyone's hand before. The guys I've ...

And if I don't answer... Then what?... Oh, no. Someone protect me from the bad man with a knife. - Admiral Kahina

Soon, sampled by everyone,Stale and pallid,I'll come outAnd mumble toothlesslyThat today I'mRemarkably candid.

My acts are irrevocableBecause they have no essence ... Where are the doers of deedsAbsent among their conditions?Imagine a magicianWho creates a creatureWho creates other ...

In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket ...

The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs. If one goes down the list ...

Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually and notoriously the ...

If you are completely surrounded by the enemies, this proves that you are damn stupid in matters of making friends and such a stupidity, such ...

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love ...

Of course you are. Emotions are totally irrational half the time." Her ice blue eyes lock onto me. "But you have full control over how ...

Mom, you're the one who said to never stop in case I get raped or picked up by a democrat.

Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a ...

Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring ...

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

They would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris Murdoch ...

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.

Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the ...

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I ...

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.

What's great is when you're shooting at the same hotel you're living in, you finish shooting, put your stuff down, take an elevator and go ...

Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything son.

Pain I'm good with. It's discomfort I can't handle.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't ...

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature.

In discarding the monkey and substituting man, our Father in Heaven did the monkey an undeserved injustice.

Discover insights into these and other questions. Until then, let's allow God to use our curiosity to keep us committed to our excursion

You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.

Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the ...

How many times of my pushing him away did I think it would take before he'd stop pursuing me? This was what I wanted.

The rebel army in Libya is just like 1,000 guys in Toyota trucks. The world is asking the question; can 1000 anti-government guys in pick-up ...

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.Of course there may be courtesies ...

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

While I do not believe Ford was wrong to pardon Nixon, the timing of the pardon was premature and may have cost Ford the margin ...

We're all Bloody inspired

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the ...

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of ...

Reality is overrated," I reply, removing her wings.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in ...

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

Keep the story alive," he said. "Memory cheats death.

You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live ...

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named ...

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is ...

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term ...

Every Star is a Sun ... If near its planet ... Likewise every individual is an Achiever if he/she works in their Stream.

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

He knew she loved him in that moment. Gabe never wanted to be part of the holy fight, but now he was, he was not ...

Cole smiled. "Love you," he whispered softly. "I'll be back soon to show you how much.

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's ...

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the ...

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people ...

I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for ...

...the horse is by no means a 'wild beast' or a stupid animal as sometimes described by thoughtless persons.

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.

I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 ...

Disrespect adheres to the ignorant; like wet leaves, breathed, on cold skin.

What a coincidence, they both go to College and I'm a rapist!

My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.

[It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million ...

Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure ...

There is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand ...

I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and ...

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded ...

I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happened. The next thing you know, I ...

Either way, the thought of entire lives lost - family celebrations, Christmases and birthdays, love affairs and bedtime stories, weddings and high school graduations - ...

I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in ...