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One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, ...
If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set ...
I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.
I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then ...
I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I ...
On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can ...
Can't trust no one else to do what you won't do for yourself.
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories ...
In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the ...
Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders ...
My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great ...
I'm such a theater geek.
Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as ...
The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards eventually.
Republican governors are more lunatic than they used to be - as attested by all the ones so eager to turn down free federal money ...
For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
Could tell by the trail of drool connecting her lips to the back of her wrist.
Money has never yet made anyone rich.
I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more quirky, you can ...
Who understands much, forgives much.
My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.
The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
Knowledge is knowing a basket, wisdom is not putting water into it.
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with ...
Do not be hasty, that is my motto.
It was a sudden, stunned state of quiet drunkenness, complete in itself, their hair mingled like the rays of two bodies in space that had ...
Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong
Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.
I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.
Of capital importance is to have a good diet and exercise a lot.
Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind
You're cruel to make me laugh right now," Perry said, trying to keep as still as possible. Any sharp movement and his ribs felt like ...
Bards sing songs and act girly. Thus, they're kind of useless in a fight, but make good support characters. Kind of half wizard half healer ...
A karate practitioner should possess two things : wicked hands, and Buddha's heart
It amounts to a diseased attitude - a conditioned reflex that shunts aside the independence of your minds whenever it is a question of opposing ...
Note that everything that happens, happens justly, and if you observe carefully, you will find it to be so, not only with respect to the ...
Just checking you're living and breathing," Kieran said. "Maybe we should discuss ways to keep you that way because right now I feel like strangling ...
Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put ...
The club survived though and became a symbol of hope and pride for over half a million refugees scattered across Azerbaijan, many of whom still ...
I don't know any skinny people who bully fat people. I just know skinny people who use fat people for rides.
I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for ...
When we devalued women, we devalued humanity.
The saw made a wet, ripping sound as it tore through flesh and bone. The wounded man jerked upward, his torso coming off the table. ...
One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.
I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, ...
[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy exists, ...
What you must do," said Monkey, "is lure the monster from its hiding place, but be certain it is a fight you can survive.
I just liked girls because I couldn't help not to.
There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly.Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!
Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
90 smiles an hour
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, ...
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between.
Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.
By the sole fact of his entering into 'Thought,' man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a ...
His eyes burned mine. "You just fight for what you want Katherine. The question is, how much do you want me?" Am I worth the ...
With same day loans, you can easily acquire immediate funds, so as to deal with any short term financial crisis. These loans are unsecured in ...
Deceptions are more frequent than changes
You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so ...
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point ...
I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time ...
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
Maybe you just do the best you can, 'cause you can't control what happens in the end.
I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient ...
Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me.
My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without ...
["What happens to people when they die?"When she heard that, her grandmother made a sound that was not like a voice but a moan. And ...
The time has come, that man should change his ideas to respect the woman and woman should her to trust the man. Now social interactions ...
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.
Everything is more effective when it's done in love rather than anger. Love really is a decision.
Maybe books are best, because you don't have to have money to read... A man can travel all over the world and come back the ...
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They're able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ...
You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days ...
I quirked a brow at him. "No kids for me. Would you really bring children into a world like this?"Eyes alight with playfulness, he said, ...
Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam ...
Janine," Anton cried, delighted. "Zach. My, my, this is
Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned ...
If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
Rapid movement was a relief in the midst of so much feeling.
Cam, I think it's pretty cool that you're spending time with Avery. I like her. She's nice.
Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories ...
Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we ...
Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although ...
I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point ...
A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
I'm very happy. I'm a happy guy; I'm always happy.
I haven't spent years in fashion making friends and making enemies.
Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to ...
You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher ...
Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.