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True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.
Sadly this process started early in our history with Adams's Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 and has continued through our history to the present ...
Without the cops or the feds, the two of them were on their own. And Jack had no idea what they were up against. All ...
Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.
In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no ...
Being a professional musician doesn't mean you spend 12 hours a day playing music. It means you spend up to 12 hours a day taking ...
There is no evil. There is no good. There is only life, and the absence of life.
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
Dreams can be deceiving, like faces are to hearts.
I'm most comfortable on stage.
No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, either. But if they're anything like some men I know, ...
In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.
Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.
For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' ...
She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.
Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as ...
In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.
Calculated and craven political stunt.
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
Go be with your husband ... before he realises that he's still in love with me
BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do ...
I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
Many a brave smiling face hides a sad heart
You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic ...
I'm not somebody that has an encyclopedic knowledge of ballads and could sit around a fire and sing songs for three hours. I basically only ...
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the ...
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
4For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, ...
A lie can run deeper than strength or wisdom.
It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make ...
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. ...
The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining ...
When sex becomes conscious it is love, it is no longer lust. Love brings freedom, and lust simply creates prisons for you.
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
An artist's work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.
The way I see life, it's like we're all flying on the Hindenburg, why fight over the window seats?
Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here.
How was he meant to find the Antichrist? Just walk down the street and say 'Hello. Excuse me, but could you please point me in ...
Then I got back to the house, and all I worried about was my story and the people in itbags of bones which were putting ...
Silence isn't the enemy. It can bring comfort and clarity and validation. It's a reminder of time for what it is ... presence.
They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's ...
God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?
I understand that finance can be very complex.
Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ... He could have a psychotic break. I read that ...
After the presentations, we had to fill out these questionnaires. The first question was, 'Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?' I know EXACTLY ...
An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills. - Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead ...
Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois ...
The United States succeeded by State action in prohibiting the slave-trade from 1798 to 1803, in furthering the cause of abolition, and in preventing the ...
The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been ...
I have never directed. But I think I could. I have thought about it. I'm a bit long in the tooth to start.
She felt that if only one could begin things at the beginning, one might see more clearly upon what foundations they now rest.
We should remember what Bismarck said in 1888: "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing ...
People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided ...
Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone ...
For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness
Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, our eyes fail before ...
Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.
To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great ...
It was the simplest thing to do, loving someone, only it was the hardest thing, too, because it hurt.
If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over ...
She was drunk on the magic of the night, giddy with glamour, swept away by beauties she had dreamt of all her life and never ...
It was like an older but better version of Young Talent Time because we had more time to spend on it. There were three guys ...
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it ...
I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, when formerly I had nothing, basically. So ...
People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing for ...
I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating ...
Aspen would not have the satisfaction of breaking my heart anymore. He'd put me here, and I would just have to take advantage of it.
What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard ...
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into ...
Eventually, in the 1780s, Louis XVI, who had ascended to the throne on his grandfather's death, realised that half his annual budget was tied to ...
, I don't fall asleep easily, but when I do, its a nightmare.
Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.
An only child is never twelve.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don't be afraid ...
Archdruid used to say. "Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on ...
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These days, French cooking, ...
I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the ...
Life is short, art is infinite.
Just so we're clear, I dont' secretly want to have sex with either of my parents.Me either. I worked through that in college just to ...
If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 ...
I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of ...
There's no celebration like a celebration with Funyuns and wine.
A federal court has ruled that the U.S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as ...
What will happen if you can't say that this wasn't a film?
Who would you be without your story?
Of course, a single verse of the Holy Qur'an or a hadith moves the faithful to good actions, but volumes of books would not move ...
I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a ...
I'm a bit of a fraud, really, as I didn't study acting at a drama school.
If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can ...
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail
If I could go back in time to when I was 18yrs old, I would take better notes this time, because back then I knew ...