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If you can teach a child, then her family and her future is taken care of.

To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends ...

We can regret something that we did , we can regret something that we didn't do; but the only thing that we can not afford ...

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric civil ...

The years would not wait for Zealers and saviors, not for chance nor hope. The erratic line would scribble on until Nyra washed away from ...

By ten o'clock, the Sunday-night blues set in. The bleak wasteland of an entire week of stupefyingly boring school stretched ahead of me like an ...

I know no one is perfect, that behind every facade of perfection is a writhing mess of subterfuge and secret sorrows ... but even taking ...

You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, ...

Like everything else he did perfectly, Ronin was a perfect travel partner. Knowledgeable. Attentive. Flexible. Spontaneous. Passionate.

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

Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed ...

The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered seat ...

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I ...

Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the ...

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.

The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he ...

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses are stupid, and people weren't well ...

I want to see a doctor," I said.He beamed. "But you've already seen one. Lucky Chang has M.I).s and Ph.D.s from every school between Seoul ...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND

Any friend of my cousin's is a friend of mine, sir. How exactly do you know Lady Zoe?"Before Tristan could answer, Zoe jumped in. "We ...

If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don't stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on ...

Examples of human stupidity. Blasphemy in Pakistan can now include spelling errors by children or throwing away a card bearing the name "Muhammad".

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure ...

Gossip is the swiftest bird alive," Amonos said darkly."Yes," said E'sinea, turning to view his surroundings. "I should like one day to catch Gossip and ...

I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat.His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic, more ...

I've been showing up late and dirty all my life.

And the scars on my soul bleed at the mention of your name. And the flashbacks of our memories are ripping my heart out. You ...

Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have ...

I asked my date what she wanted to drink. She said, 'Oh, I guess I'll have Champagne.' I said, 'Guess again.'

I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you were to turn on CBS at 8 o'clock on ...

Borders are fluid things; they help define our identities, and yet so often we use our identities to push up against borders and redraw them.

Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in ...

How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky.

The joy of the Lord is our strength.

When people talk about the stuff of mine that's frightened them onscreen, they're apt to mention Pennywise the Clown first, then Kathy Bates as Annie ...

Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?""Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

Time was also (as an infant) I knew no Latin; but this I learned without fear or suffering, by mere observation, amid the caresses of ...

(In the 1920s, two Chicago chemists had to puree several thousand pounds of bull testicles from a stockyard to get a few ounces of the ...

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. ...

What do they call it, Y.O.L.A., you only live once? I think people are sort of gravitating towards that.

Don't you understand? The depth of what I feel for you? I'm not just crazy for you, I'm out of my mind, out of my ...

This used to be a mean monster until he got sick one winter with the flu & stayed in bed & watched too much Little ...

There's much to be said for a good strumpet, Ned," Simon rejoined. "Indeed I think you might be sadly in need of some good, hard, ...

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.

But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.

Respect, honesty, responsibility, and hope are the language of a great team leader.

Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.

The mercy of heaven is greater than you or your sins. Let your sadness be dispersed by its glorious beams. Do not let apathy prevent ...

The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the ...

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; ...

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke ...

If you only knew how much my soul aches when I'm not with you,

Then let no man attempt to number Israel today, but let everyone have a heart of flesh, a heart of tender sympathy, a heart that, ...

It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there - his wit, his skeptical mien, his ...

People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I ...

Much of traditional Southern cooking parallels Italian peasant cuisine. Consider cooked radicchio with polenta. It is not dissimilar to our grits and greens.

And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip-music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. ...

All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion; ...

Sundance felt like a natural fit. I love coming here, and I do think that this festival suits my films rather than most of the ...

Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and ...

The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and ...

Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our ...

Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don't measure up. Self-correction is ...

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.

My first memory is of the smell of sunwarmed earth.

I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only ...

It is the sexual frenzy of a closed society, and the women of Golpitha are the gutters for these men's emissions.

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids ...

Be true to yourself"- Ven Zallow

Those fruity stenches brought Lib back to Scutari, where the sedatives always seemed to run out halfway through a run of amputations. As

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If ...

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave ...

Sometimes I'll write a tweet that I'll just be like, 'Why do I have to say this to all of these people?' It's like writing ...

The run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything ...

Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

When in doubt," the mage Numair Salmalin had taught the pages, "Shoot the wizard.

Do not work at Walmart expecting to receive your salary from Microsoft.

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called ...

I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ...

I had the weirdest dream...

If it seems like I've been lost in 'lets remember', If it seems I'm gettin' older and missin' my younger days, well you shoulda known ...

I think that debut albums are supposed to sound sort of raw. You don't want to record 'Sgt. Pepper's' as your first album, because where ...

The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.

Some had had to suffer through a few daughters before siring a precious son,

My way is in the sand flowingbetween the shingle and the dunethe summer rain rains on my lifeon me my life harrying fleeingto its beginning ...

It always came down to his freaking pride.

If anyone can be trusted, it's the Savior. He's always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right ... He never left me then, but stayed firm ...

Who'll love Aladdin Sane? Battle cries and champagne just in time for sunrise.

Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.

I realized then that both Gladys and Norm were smiling at about the time I realized that Max and I were acting like lunatics."I don't ...

Issie?"After a second her voice comes out small and tired. "I'm not here.""Oh." I back up so I can stare at the bathroom door. No ...