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People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see ...
Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
The more your appreciate yourself the more you will have the energy from within.Stop sourcing for external energry source to charge yourself. Seek the light ...
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
I made a point when I made the Ugly Casanova record to not write a song and then say, 'This is a Modest Mouse song' ...
All women are beautiful; it's society who's ugly.
[I]n America, wrongs can be righted,warriors can wear skirts and blouses,and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.
Fear is like a little germ in your head, allow it to grow and it takes over your all.
His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. ...
Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them.
There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.
I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.
For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it.
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed ...
And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is ...
I loved 'Lobo' in the '90s, but I think that character is hard to connect with, especially for new readers.
Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouthfilled with words that have died on my lips.
But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen ...
Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.
World's definition of successmaterial validation of selfcold and naked substitutefor inner warmth and beauty.
What about those yogis who can lie down on a bed of nails, then arise, streaming blood, then stop the flow of blood from each ...
I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by ...
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator ...
Cape Cod Potato Chips was another beneficiary of the Demoulases' openness to local producers. Like Ken's, it offered a high-quality product but did not have ...
Bonis nocet, qui malis parcit. He harms the good (people) who spares the evil.
I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.
Surround yourself with Love and Love will surround you.
There's a lot of frogs to kiss before you realize they're all frogs.
The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
Everything is but what we think it.
You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
You suffer through it as you struggle to solve it, but by the end you've developed a sort of fondness for it, and you miss ...
I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!
If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm ...
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
Truly mature people are so detached from others that they can love their enemies, bless those who curse them, do good to those who hate ...
There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and ...
They're not really homes. More like houses where we sleep.Where we eat - if we're lucky. Where we cry and fight.Where we bleed and break. ...
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Reality is not what you think.
We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows ...
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. ...
I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty
I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life ...
I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.
Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.
But what of the seemingly more fanciful idea that the internet might one day "wake up"? Could the internet become something more than just the ...
Because I know what it's like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the ...
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
Results, are the name of the game ...
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
The fastest way to know God is to serve the God in someone else.
One of the coolest moments for me is still when Kenny G came back to a venue to find me and personally tell me that ...
The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.
I can feel it. My heart once weakened by my love for her has finally grown quiet.
Learn from the rejection and turn it into an opportunity!
Sometimes the ship would sail above dark storm clouds, as big as mountains, and the crew would fish for lightning bolts with a small copper ...
Over-learning & over-preparing gives you the winning edge in any area.
When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution ...
When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by ...
Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
I have a special gift, and I go out and use it. I don't think you can hide it. I'm just confident in myself-always have ...
My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little ...
Transformation occurs only when we remember, breath by breath, year after year, to move toward our emotional distress without condemning or justifying our experience.
And then a monstrous idea jumped into her head, a thought so ruthless and dark she almost fled from the contemplation of it.
It is hard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because we are not nearly as interested in resolving ...
Mandy stammered. "I've never been to a town council meeting." "No reason you should. They're kind of like root canals." Jake straightened a tie that ...
Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale ...
My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my ...
But a constant, low-level background of crime may help a society become more robust, more resilient.
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.
But how is it justice, God? Why do I deserve this?" She waited. God declined to reply. How
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; ...
When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.
And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard ...
Just out of curiosity, sweetheart; did you ever talk to your doctor about givin' you some tranquilizers?
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to ...
The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of ...
I've had a lot of disappointments. I think my biggest disappointment is the failure of elected officials to make good on their promises in regards ...
Charly Cruz asked him if he liked Spike Lee. Yes, said Fate, although he didn't really."He seems Mexican," said Charly Cruz."Maybe," said Fate. "That's an ...
Beth: "What are you, the Energizer Bunny?
Mathematicians can be persnickety about logical niceties. We're the kind of people who think it's funny, when asked, "Do you want soup or salad with ...
Success and failure are not true op-posites and they're not even in the same class; they're not even a couch and a chair.
I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever.
You'll notice that the Intrepid's inertial dampeners don't work as well in crisis situations, Dahl remembered Jenkins telling them. The ship could do hairpin turns ...
Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's ...
They that stand high have many blasts to shake 275 them, 276 And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.
I'll never be alone, because I'll always have My Problems with me!
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve ...