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I realize Jubilee is a bit of a stripper name. You probably think I have heard the call of the pole.
- 'twould almost damn those ears; The author's meaning is this: - That some people are thought wise whilst they keep silence; who, when they ...
One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is ...
You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What ...
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
A typical day in my writing life starts with looking at pictures of real estate online for at least 20 minutes. If I happen to ...
The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.
Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
There will be no more 'them and us', only us, sharing struggles and challenges as part of being human.
I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I ...
The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot ...
The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the ...
It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number ...
I don't believe that happily ever after means we never have disagreements or go through conflicts. What I do believe is that there is someone ...
I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you ...
You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about ...
President Obama shopped at a book store to help support Small Business Saturday. He bought fifteen books. His tax policies and his health care law ...
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River ...
Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater ...
You're never completely ready ... It just becomes your turn.
There is something universal about being stood up in a city restaurant between one and two - a spiritual no-man's-land, whose blasted trees, entrenchments, and ...
Performance standards and accountability applied to everyone.
Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, ...
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter of all things ...
Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot ...
Today I realize that I'm not marrying the one I thought loved me, I'm just Morgan Lewis, the owner of a bakery, a tiny apartment ...
Perhaps I didn't voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I ...
In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike ...
I'm Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I'm 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look ...
If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I ...
We say submarining is a team sport, but in practice it often amounts to a bunch of individuals, each working in his own shell, rather ...
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by ...
I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone ...
So, about the only difference I see between a thief and a banker most times is a college degree.
Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending - deadly, if you ...
You don't need anybody to tell you what is right or wrong. What you need, perhaps, is someone to show you how to come to ...
From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin ... For me that house was ...
I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do ...
My patchwork life: quiet Sunday, coffee on Grace's breath, the unfamiliar landscape of the lumpy new scar on my arm, the dangerous smell of snow ...
Higher still and higherFrom the earth thou springestLike a cloud of fire;The blue deep thou wingest,And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Prayers can be whatever you wish them to be. They can be short or long requests, expressions of gratitude and affirmations that your requests are ...
We can possess nothing - no property and no person ... It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property ...
I wanted to do London Boulevard because I saw the potential of a story about two people who need each other desperately, who love at ...
I have since wondered, of course, how my life would have been different if I'd decided to stay home that morning. This is what's called ...
Her brain darted up and down; it grew pliant and strong. Her conclusion was that any human being lies nearer to the unseen than any ...
Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and ...
Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I ...
2. E-mail Signature. Your e-mail signature is an opportunity to create another branding impression. But be careful. If you include too much information, it just ...
Spread your wings, tokshi, and fly. Soar above them, make their eyes tear as they stare into the sun to watch you reach new heights.
Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
This is the process of "systematic desensitization." By confronting your fear, and by repeatedly doing the thing you fear, the fear eventually disappears.
Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to ...
Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you ...
A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal ...
I didn't cry when she got on the plane. She lived with me for four years, and when she walked away, I didn't feel much ...
There is a story I always tell my students ... when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn't speak English (Only ...
In the police's defense, the Riot aren't wearing their cuts, but I'm disappointed. The Riot watching the store are big names and we know them ...
Let us reach for the world that ought to be that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls.
I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of ...
A song says something to us that we can't hear in any other way. There is a kind of magic to it. Music does not ...
The most significant way you can edify another person is to see them accurately as the same as you, listen to them, and honor their ...
Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea ...
The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I ...
And in that dismal restaurant, surrounded by the simple government clerks who sat there repairing the wear and tear of their humble daily tasks, my ...
I never regretted what I turned down.
The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a ...
I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know ...
Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. "Impudent," she said. "It's sweet on you.
What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's ...
There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an "all Canadian" boy or ...
The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.
I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party ...
The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and ...
The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous ...
When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage.
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock ...
Guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the war, except to ...
Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small a bound. But ...
Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability.
You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other ...
The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; ...
In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.
Let us fight to free the world
Small sacrifices must be made.
He would see that world reborn, even if it took his last breath. Even if he had no name now, no position or title save ...
The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.
I want you, Zel. God knows how much I fucking want you." He dropped his eyes, glaring at his fists. "But I'm still struggling inside. ...
The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President ...
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, ...
I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.
He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"the cry of a gambler, the cry of the ...