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I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
You never know what you find once you really get going.
There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.
I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but ...
However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.
With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching ...
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of ...
I look at my career and how I'm doing it now. I feel like there is something authentic in that process that I still try ...
The trouble with Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough.
I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.
I thought I could leave you. I thought distance wouldmake 'this' go away, and it'd get easier, but it hasn't.
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
Catherine was clever, but even a clever woman misses some of the strange corridors in a man.
When the alarm bell rings, you'd better wake up and realize that the customer expects more from you today than he did the day before. ...
If there is a solar flare or a nuclear war, a thousand cans of pickled turnips aren't going to save you.
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Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken ...
The one-eyed view of our universe says The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may ...
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox ...
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system.
I'm going to start from the beginning. All I ask is that you don't interrupt and you silently pray Luke returns with a milkshake quickly, ...
To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our ...
Epic love story has only love between two people but do not have 'they lived happily ever after
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.
The only people who fear death are the ones who haven't lived.
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
He couldn't stay there surrounded by a passel of slaves whose silence made him imagine an avalanche seen from a great distance. No sound, just ...
Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily ...
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
Does knowledge dwindle and only the salt singing itself through sea and blood become the drink of poetry?
Everyone was trying to define everything so carefully, Jacinta felt; they wanted to annihilate all questions.
Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.
On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates ... This carving, done with a pencil dug many times ...
Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our hubris ...
Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.
You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in ...
What is it about the sight of your mother that makes everything fireside-warm and full of dancing Muppets?
If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.
The stupid snack tray did not have power steering.
People are fools, she said. They spend their whole lives getting stuck with pins and act like nothing's wrong, they just leave them there, and ...
Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, ...
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
I'm really proud to be Filipino. Filipinos are really supportive, and I want to thank all of them. I love them!
What do Judy Garland and Lady Gaga have in common?
I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public.
I felt pure the way you feel after you vomit, kind of light and strangely holy, like having taken a sauna in hell.
Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
Controlling nothing. Consider that! The youngling and the aged experience it - the struggle with ineffectuality. Controlling nothing is the true death. But I have ...
Since she moved in, Carter found himself in the mood for a lot of things he hadn't been before. Crispy salmon wasn't one of them.
My heart's so full of joy, That I shall do some wild extravagance Of love in public; and the foolish world, Which knows not tenderness, ...
Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a long time dear ...
People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.
I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now over. He's had his chance, ...
Hello." Sara's soft, sexy voice sounded on the other end. "Mitch?" "Yeah?" Forgoing pleasantries and getting right to the point, she said, "My kitty stopped ...
I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Lauren." He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. "Oh God, some guy's using ...
Tell my daughter Elizabeth no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And ...
Evan's like...he's a raindrop and Nick is the sea.
I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.
Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.
Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to ...
I am a businesswoman who goes to work every single day.
When I was a boy, we had forty five statues of saints in my house. Ever have ninety eyes looking at you every time you ...
I'm not a good mother at all.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.
And onto the screen pops a couple of housewives who start having a poop fit when they see how clean their new dish soap got ...
If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
I have always wanted to teach, and coaching is teaching.
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really ...
I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
A wise person would make certain their words aren't so sharp.
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable ...
Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights ...
Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface; it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in ...
I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn't make ...
The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up ...
On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66.
Sometimes, people don't need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.
Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live ...
Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.
Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.
And from these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit Improv'd by tract of time, and wingd ascend Ethereal, as ...
I definitely enjoy an audience, when I'm performing. As I get older I'm kind of less comfortable at being demonstrative. I always fancied myself as ...
A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be straight and shiny. ...
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.
It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of ...
Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would ...
They won't get you without getting us and believe me, we're not about to make our enemies happy and die here. (Nykyrian)Damn straight. We have ...
I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.
Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As the jurist Cass ...
I'm worse at what I do best. And for this gift, I feel blessed.
I wasn't at all surprised when Cinderella gave me the finger.
I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical ...
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it