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House Speaker John Boehner says President Obama should have clearly outlined his exact plans before bombing Libya. Apparently it's only Iraq where you don't have ...

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, ...

Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, ...

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

Surdas destroyed his eyes believing that once his sight was gone, desire and passion would never arise in him again. But desire doesn't arise in ...

Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with ...

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

Alviss, son of Vindalf. He's the king of the dwarfs. The biggest, mightiest, greatest of all the dwarf folk."But he's not a dwarf," pointed out ...

In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - ...

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself ...

I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet. We just watch ...

If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is ...

I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It ...

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself - that is to say, risking oneself.If one cannot risk oneself, then one is spimply incapable of ...

The truth is like a disease, let's hope it spreads.

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves ...

'Oh, no,' Heilyn said, sidling a little closer. 'If I was being shameless, I would have said I was like a wishbone and you needed ...

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, ...

Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting ...

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Never ruffle the feathers of a spiteful woman because she will not only want to hurt you, but she will want to draw your blood. ...

Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And ...

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was ...

AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, I'd still choose to be with ...

Very good. But your most insidious chronic problem is in the area of . . . how shall I put this precisely . . . ...

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant ...

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

If you want to be liberated, if you choose to be what I am, then you've chosen freedom. You can do this.

I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

Life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of ...

I needed a shower with my detachable sprayer. In my opinion, every girl should have one for her cleansing pleasure.

But sitting out tests that have proven essential in lifting the achievement of at-risk students is shortsighted, if not selfish.

Yeah, it's been pretty gnarly. It's fun. It can only be fun, unless you're really squirmy about that. Honestly, during that guts episode, they didn't ...

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I ...

Strax slammed his fist into the open palm of his other hand. 'At last,' he pronounced. 'We strike for the greater glory of the Sontaran ...

And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color ... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in ...

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having ...

A king can only work with his best tools.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

You're very sure of yourself. And you mistakenly seem to think you can be very sure of me" She pouted. "How sad for you."He gave ...

Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.

CHAPTER XXIII WHICH CONTAINS THE SUBSTANCE OF A PLEASANT CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR. BUMBLE AND A LADY; AND SHEWS THAT EVEN A BEADLE MAY BE SUSCEPTIBLE ...

The pressure for an actress to look good and be skeletally thin is insane and unrealistic and it's a subject I've been fascinated by.

I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people and know when to put your foot down ...

Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I ...

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort ...

And, oh yes, I did see Nessie! But that was much later on after a late evening that involved several pints and more than my ...

For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.

On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,' I ...

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked ...

I think the biggest lesson I learned from my Dad was the importance of telling the truth.

Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you.

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.

Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling ...

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?

No guy is ever gonna be like, 'Well, I'm not into her because she just doesn't seem into me!' That's never been a complaint for ...

I did it for you. I took in a pint of bourbon with me. She's a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket ...

SIMPLICIO: ... You have to [learn to] walk before you can run.SALVIATI: No, you have to have something you want to run toward.

Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road, laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones.

Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion ...

He took a deep breath, as if he were taking the air from my own lungs and swallowing it for himself.

When you are looking for love, then love is spreading its net to catch you.

The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run ...

Father, I am welling over with limpid joy! No sicklying taint of sorrow overlies the lucid lake of liquid love, upon which, hand in hand, ...

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet ...

I am pleased, he said with a rich throaty accent. My heart melted. Simple as they were, those three little words meant the world to ...

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Clair de Lune," a song that makes her think of leaves fluttering, and of the hard ribbons of sand beneath her feet at low tide. ...

I would like to invite you to savour every moment of this experiential journey. Feel the energies of the earth, listen to them calling on ...

You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on ...

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. ...

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

Kind of gay? I wanted to say. Do you have any notion how many homosexuals sweated their ass off on the dance floor to make ...

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots ...

Being a highly sensetive person is followed by a lot of infinity pain and grief.

A whale can injure another whale with its sonar. A whale can speak to another whale across sixty miles of ocean. A whale is as ...

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.

They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and ...

If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been imported, and the water is ...

My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields ...

To be called insane: challenge convention. To be called possessed: challenge religion.

I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting ...

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long ...

Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [ ... ] School ...