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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 ...

For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to ...

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

I think we all need to be inside of us for 3 whole days, thinking about how we can love ourselves more, protect ourselves more, ...

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to ...

Why do you tell me you love me only when you're drunk or dreaming? she asked. I have awful timing, said Simon

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

Someone asked me when is my birthday?The poet inside me replied,My birthday is on the last day of the year,It's 31st December my dear!

I'm the type of person who wakes up at 12 AM just to write down a sudden idea that gets in my head. I have ...

GEORGE 2048: We like to think of it as one civilization.

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, ...

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made ...

I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe ... I annoyingly ...

What is required of thee, O man, but to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God. Micah 6:8

When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the ...

I think the action movies in the 80s and 90s were different. It was a testosterone age. Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sylvester Stallone ...

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 ...

When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - ...

So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'" Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism, ...

If you want to produce exceptional writing you have to put the work into it.

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - ...

For some reason, he belonged more in Wisconsin. Because of me, because I was there. Not that I ever managed to talk to him for ...

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of ...

Sometimes the memory of horror is worse than the horror itself.

Pregnancy and childbirth are not only physical and medical experiences, after all. They are also social experiences that, in modern America, just as when abortion ...

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under ...

Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and ...

When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just ...

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will ...

Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American ...

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and ...

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the ...

The precision metallic ratcheting sound a Glock 9mm makes when a bullet is forced out of the gun's clip into the killing chamber is a ...

When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just ...

People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice.

You can't call a ninja lord dweeb.

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

His grin turns boyish. Assuming you don't clock an angel for pissing you off.

I can't help but wonder, if 50 SHADES OF GREY is supposed to be sexually empowering to women how come the girl isn't the one ...

Drop by Bell's for an Irish Kiss anytime. The best in England

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons. Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head ...

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today ...

So perhaps there are no phantom pains after all; perhaps all pain is real; perhaps each long-ago blow lives on into eternity in some different ...

The four stages of acceptance:1. This is worthless nonsense.2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.3. This is true, but quite unimportant.4. I ...

When you need to set boundaries . . . They are the kind [of people] who work their way into people's homes and win the ...

When your daughter asks you to be a fairy for her 5th birthday party ... you better be a damned fairy.

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 ...

In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 ...

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot ...

When the Mets were on their run in the 1980s, Gary Carter was often seen hugging somebody. It was easy to joke about that. The ...

Congratulations!If I may be so boldOnly 40 years to goBefore you're a century oldJust saying

This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on ...

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

Helmut, if I had known that one can make it to 90 on 60 cigarettes a day, I would have started smoking 30 years ago. ...

Im for rules but when rules conflicts humanity i will stand against it at all cost

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's ...

Just 158 rich families contributed nearly half of the $176 million given to candidates in the first phase of the presidential election of 2016 - ...

Meditation is not required to be one with self. All that is required is that you be about oneself, maintain oneself, and be true to ...

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 ...

After 7 years of marriage, I am sure of 2 things: First, never wallpaper together and second, you'll need 2 bathrooms ... both for her. ...

So, that's okay. It's not like you're turning into an Endarkened or something, like Kellen's evil stepbrother Anigrel the Black.

'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be ...

If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

Watching a movie a couple of weeks ago. An American movie. I can't remember the name, but it wasn't even a sad movie. It caught ...

PSA98.1 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him ...

She had typed A Murder of Quality under protest, but this time she declined, so David had to rely on the Embassy secretaries instead. In ...

Hugs should be available at the medical stores 24/7. Sometimes, they are the best healers for almost everything.

When I auditioned for '21 Jump Street,' it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I've ever experienced in ...

It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The ...

If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, ...

Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful ...

Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the ...

But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and ...

I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age ...

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

In countries where income from labor is most equally distributed, such as the Scandinavian countries between 1970 and 1990, the top 10 percent of earners ...

Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it ...

The Bible is the place where God bears His soul.

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some ...

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.

January 15: Columnist Bob Thomas publicizes Marilyn's doubts about the Something's Got to Give script.

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom.

Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am ...

I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

If your opponent has you by fifty pounds, winning a fight against him is a dubious proposition, at best. If your opponent has you by ...

In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and 10 ...

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

I've spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of ...

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 ...

You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.

The door to opportunity is marked push but the gateway to dreams is marked relentless prep fiend & OCD-heads only.

My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice ...