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When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

Why is it a good idea for you and not a good idea for me?

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing ...

I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I'm in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler ...

I remember the first time I saw the stars. I thought they changed everything. I thought they changed me, like I'd become a different person ...

Work in a place that feels good to you. Select the best of that which is available. The Zen of working is just to do ...

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can ...

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on ...

The Global Financial Crisis (2008-?); it is not a matter of noblesse oblige as of vitesse oblige.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are ...

Divine grace is available for each one of us.

The truth is, Lang," Angel whispered, "your brother hangs the stars in my goddamn sky. It sounds stupid and maybe corny, but when he's around ...

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of ...

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents, faute ...

It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

Love respects the other. It is a give-and-take relationship. Love enjoys giving, and love enjoys taking. It is a sharing, it is a communication. Both ...

I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored ...

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making ...

Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes.

If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in which ...

Mum and Dad died of heart problems, my grandparents died of it, my sister has had mini strokes, my brother has had a heart attack ...

Can you be compassionate even to those who have no compassion? If so, there is no finer karma that you can create.

There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.

And then, on a sunny Friday morning, for three seconds, you can't search for anything. You can't check your email. You can't watch any videos. ...

But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

I was right. You were asleep but you were dreamin'. You dream in black and white, babe. I gave you color. Now, you're awake."-Kane "Tack" ...

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, ...

Mindset is the "software," and software is eating the world. Deal with changes at the mindset level.

Since when has leadership been a criterion for sanity? Or vice versa. Hitler was a gifted leader, even Nixon. Exhibit leadership qualities as an adolescent, ...

When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do notdestroy the heretic because he resists us: so long ...

I'm a fan of short horror fiction ... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety ... but I have ...

By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from HimThou ...

The advance of our technology is coincidental with the loss of our appetite for ethical questions that ought to attend the implications of these new ...

Social power is the power over nature, the living standards achieved by men in mutual exchange. State power, as we have seen, is the coercive ...

Is there anything that doesn't piss you off?""Yeah, flowers and sunshine. But there's none of that to be found since this world fell into a ...

I've got four women in my house - my wife and my three daughters - and I tell you what, it's pretty scary. I keep ...

These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody ...

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's ...

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' ...

I happen to take photographs, and they happen to be used for a lot of things, but they're not really made to order. They're paid ...

Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach ...

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

All right," I said. "But from now on, every time you show me a dead body, I'm having sex with Eric.

Dedication Whether side by side or miles apart we are sisters. We may not be connected by hand but we are always connected by heart.

Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and ...

Sing me to sleep, sing me to sleep. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. SIng me to sleep, sing me to sleep, ...

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get ...

Thomas came last, buckling on his gun belt, which was currently hung with his ridiculously huge Desert Eagle, just in case we were attacked by ...

You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and thegospel of envy.[PERTH, 28 MAY 1948]

If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no ...

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that ...

Oh I bet you're sweet as under all that posh.' And he looked at her in a way that left her in no doubt that ...

I am having the most wonderful time sorting myself out!

Tomorrow when I awaken, the slate will be clean, and a new day will stretch before me. God's mercies are new every morning.

Teachers thought I was stupid, parents believed I was retarded, lecturers assumed I took drugs but I was a writer.

As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when ...

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To ...

Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it ...

To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away.

Who's this - alone with stone and sky? It's only my old dog and I - It's only him; it's only me; Alone with stone ...

Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when ...

My sisters, we didn't like each other as kids. We were scared of each other, I think, but we've grown to love each other. It ...

I'm not in Wall Street for my health.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art ...

You can conquer any mountain with faith, hope and courage.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight ...

Through intense self-examination and ceaseless selfchallenge, create change, and adjust your track toward growth and completion.

If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph ...

For action has no sense. It merely binds one to existence. All existence, however, has no sense. Evil is interpreted as that which leads to ...

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and ...

I started reading the works of Swami Vivekananda. That gave me courage and a vision, it sharpened and deepened my sensitivities and gave me a ...

Memories and dreams are intermixed in this mad universe

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to ...

Feel the connection!

Success without a successor is a failure

We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He ...

Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.

This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so ...

Brothers and sisters, if only we had more compassion for those who are different from us, it would lighten many of the problems and sorrows ...

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when ...

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

In terms of their basic biochemical design ... no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other ...

Even the smallest shots of positivity can give someone a serious competitive edge. Two

Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less ...

When it comes to spinning stories, no one can do it with a straighter face than a cop. "I'm on my way.

Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of ...

God resides most strongly and evidently where science has not yet progressed to go ... And if this is true then it follows that God ...

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things ...