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I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music ...
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles ... Contemporary or postmodernist art ...
Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to ...
These were the ridiculous tales of being twenty-two and twenty-five, of being in that happy, malleable phase of postcollege life before everything set in the ...
One of my biggest concerns was how defensive the fans would be over The REV's drum throne. I'm grateful they have been welcoming.
Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition ...
Be thankful, joyful and prayerful.
By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.
I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly ...
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others ...
Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. ...
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency ...
The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.
Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most ...
All right, all right. Don't get your panties in a bunch! I'm coming. Everyone, meet Blaire, my future wife.
Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff ...
We are not the vedantists, pauranics or tantrics. we are the 'don't touchists'. our religion is 'don't touch me, i am holy'.-vivekananda
It looks like Russian," said Mrs. Knight. Her voice echoed in the lounge. It sounded like her vocal cords were made from the same pale ...
Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give ...
The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false ...
That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.
I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
The best that can happen to a girl, Claire, is to be a bit plain, like you. You think I'm being unkind, but I am ...
Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.
We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe ...
It's hardly the time for sense, I should think, since nonsensehas been serving us so well
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk.
This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. ...
So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.
I respect that you want to protect your niece. You know, I didn't want my daughter to become a boxer. Neither did Mohammad. But Joe ...
Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.
There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.
I call you domina because that's what you are," Samuel insisted."It's what I was. Now I'm just Brie. What if I only called you pathfinder?
No one ever died of love yet, said the prioress with a savage bitterness.
Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness ...
We all come in this planet for a purpse. I know my purpose, What is yours?
Ullahbluh! Sehyoh narar, pokehole sann! Manhead very dirty by am anoyato. Like old Dolldy Icon when he cooked up his iggs in bicon. He gatovit ...
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their ...
It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of ...
The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.
No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you." He leaned in. "It fucking ...
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting ...
No government dependent on a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifices which any adequate plan for European Union must involve. The ...
Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns.
Because sometimes that's how life is. A puzzle made up of a million pieces, and when one piece doesn't exactly fit, it throws the rest ...
The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, ...
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very ...
To stick to the present and not let it pass without drawing some profit from it, that's what I think duty is ... let us ...
God! ... Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the ...
The leader goes also to the less traditional networking meetings. The manager participates in networking events organized and promoted.
I think I could create a cult, no problem. The hard part is getting people to kill themselves.
It's short-sighted to think ads won't one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.
I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that ...
Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a ...
Life is too precious to spend it with important people.
Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife ... job. Now he wants ...
Promisingly. Then they began to eat so that the juice of the meat ran over their beards.
The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal ...
Why do I keep thinking of her alluva sudden?! Especially when the only time my face gets red and my heart starts puonding ... is ...
Pessimism is not good for the soul.""I sold my soul years ago.""To whom?""The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.
She had done her residency at LA County Hospital, where the CT machines were so old she had to mark off the body parts for ...
I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the ...
Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid.
The blood in my body seems to be pooling in my cock.
Norman Vincent Peale "A peaceful mind generates power." from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking.
There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.
I like you,' I say. 'I lustful-sun like you, I meteorite like you, you are the fucking pink Starburst to me.
I think romance is harder in the digital or postdigital age or whatever we're supposed to call it. Love is harder.
Despite her self-reproach, she envied Anna, that she could do what Alice couldn't - keep her children safe from harm. Anna would never have to ...
I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin ...
When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.
Come on, Park," his dad said sharply, "get dressed and put your makeup on." Like
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.
The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I ...
Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
When in doubt about drinking from an unknown spring look for life. If the water is scummed with algae, crawling with worms, grubs, larvae, spiders ...
I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.
We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that ...
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
If I were fire, I would burn; if I were a woodcutter, I would strike. But I am a heart, and I love.
In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe ...
Yeah. I told you he was crazy, right? I heard he does some weird stuff at home, too.' He said it with a conspiratorial stage ...
So, having dried my tear-swollen eyelids, I take up my pen to inquire of you, are you alive or did you die? If you are ...
1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup salt, and 1 gallon of water. To this brine you can add spices and seasoning such as peppercorns, cloves, garlic, ...
If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of ...
Gu himself presides over the room- a genial, noisy man with the widest, jauntiest, must luxuriant and ambitious mustache I have ever seen, permanently fighting ...
It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.
Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in ...
Ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When
If one just intellectually understands the view it will not help! One must actually experience it! There are many people who understand the view but ...
This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.
As a kid, I read 'Peter Pan,' and I really wanted to be him.