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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me ...

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do..

She says she glories in being abandoned

Hitlerism exercised its strong international and inter-European appeal during the thirties because racism, although a state doctrine only in Germany, had been a powerful trend ...

Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, ...

I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And ...

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to ...

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and ...

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality ...

My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, ...

So how, one wonders, does Lean,[i] the hot business methodology of the past two decades, continue to thrive when companies that sign up for it ...

My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft ...

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I ...

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make ...

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

A politician will promise the moon but deliver an ant hill

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face ...

If you saw the size of the BLESSING YOU ARE BECOMING, you would understand the magnitude of the battle you are fighting!

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel ...

You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.

Geography is not just about the physical terrain, but also about the meaning that we attribute to it. Thus, the Saraswati flows, invisibly, at Allahabad.

Thank You, Lord, that You are with me in everything that I face. No matter what comes against me, You are greater and more powerful. ...

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

Some women feel loved if you do the dishes without being reminded; some men feel loved if you'll play a video game with them, others ...

Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was ...

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't ...

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. - ...

You know, I'm just 6'9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye ...

I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things ...

"Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?" "That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. ...

For mental and emotional health, quiet time is very important to me. I need a point in every day that I disconnect from all electronics ...

The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, ...

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Just because you've read someone's Facebook status doesn't mean you're truly in touch with that person.

A fairytale princess then. Which one are you?Cinderella? Will you turn into a pumpkin if you leave the house? Or Rapunzel? Your hair's pretty long. ...

If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is ...

I think 'One Woman Army' sums up the overall picture. I talk about love, about life, and I talk about what I want and would ...

There's always a sunrise and always a sunset and it's up to you to choose to be there for it,' said my mother. 'Put yourself ...

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on ...

The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a ...

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

Well, I guess I'm just not as special as you are. (Urian)No one knows their true mettle until it's been tested. This is yours. Whether ...

Stormy Llewellyn didn't want a pedestal. She wanted only someone who would look her straight in the eyes and always tell her the truth.

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another ...

I think we are as screwed as a culture as we are saved as a culture.

I think fans get bored of the pre-roll. I also think they don't care about the pre-roll, they just want the album.

Why I find Louis Brandeis so exciting and inspiring because he's teaching us - good legal writing is not a matter of taste, it's a ...

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are ...

Therefore, any attempt to build community on something more than the grace of Christ becomes a subtle move away from grace, a move toward pseudo-community ...

What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside.'She's royalty!'"And a vampire, remember?"'Oh yeah,' Chloe paused. 'Nope, princess ...

Who are you if you lose your favorite person? Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself? I reach for Stargirl and she's gone. ...

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we ...

I'm a firm believer in that you play the way you practice.

I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just ...

Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are ...

I've changed from my gorgeous yellow dress into my comfy Victoria's Secret pink. Some secret, it's just sweatpants and a hoodie. The hoodie's up with ...

My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't ...

The present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in its ...

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the ...

I write best when "I" am not writing.

I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to ...

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve as excellent role ...

Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,And be it moon, or sun, or what you please.And if you please to call it a ...

Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. ...

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and ...

To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world - including America - was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

But today? I'm taking the low road because that man, that jerk, deserves it, whoever he is. Fucking asshole ...

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.

History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that ...

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

Now he's far away, floating in the clouds, playing Scrabble with the Dalai Lama, but wouldn't you know it, all the tiles are in Tibetan.

And I mouth into the phone, I love you, in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well ...

Since becoming mayor in 2009, Julian has worked tirelessly to pursue policies that honor the aspirations of the people he represents. I'm proud that my ...

An overcast luminance, a subdued warmth

He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even ...

In Marin County, north of San Francisco, the search for a safe haven resulted in a new apartment complex - the first, and only, such ...

You control your own wins and losses.

I walk down the hallway and go into my room and call it a day and it calls me something else.

Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

P21 the more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can ...

I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows ...

When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.

When one writes "the last apple on the tree," or "the one small peach as pink as dawn," one is beginning to deal with particulars ...

Remember guls," preached Mrs. Gulbenk, always holding the most perfect red tomato in her hand for all of us to admire, "you can fry 'em, ...

Sales management is the most critical - and underappreciated - role in the sales force. Companies struggle to find something powerful to train sales managers ...

Getting away from a white or light colored tuxedo shirt is always a little dangerous. Certain staples shouldn't be mixed with. Light pink or blue ...

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

I love doing action movies, I love pushing myself to the limit.

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

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

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out ...

Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was eighteen. Maybe she ...