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I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous ...

My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is "too dry" even if it's soup. And her aunt will ...

The legendary Princeton team (Hobey Baker) played 120 minutes of no-substitute hockey in less than 24 hours, eighty of those minutes shorthanded, and remarkably defeated ...

Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake ...

We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the ...

We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while ...

It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that ...

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything ...

Body of yin, soul of yang. Metal and fire unified. The outer and inner; microcosmos in my palm.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure ...

My manager always preaches golf comes first.

When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Christmas does not remind us that God was born over 2000 years ago. It is a time to remember that God was born in our ...

Some people think that going to church on Sunday and owning a dust-covered Bible makes a person a Christian. That is not true. A Christian ...

The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make ...

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself ...

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As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

A year earlier my parents had moved us out of the city to a split-level on Long Island, their idea of the American dream, which ...

Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives ...

I don't think a show's ever changed networks in the middle of the season before, but it was cool because they gave us those extra ...

It was you who ended it, Chace. You that dug me out. You that pulled me free. You had help but you did it. That's ...

Live and let live. You snooze, you lose. Make your life a dream and your dreams come to life.

I just always want to be different - THE EXCEPTION - and this weekend knocked me right back to reality.And the reality is - I ...

But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last ...

The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.

An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from ...

To stupid or what???I really don't get it... why do you agree always!?Don't you have an opinion... so far I have onion with prefix "Op" ...

If we want to know where the truth lies in particular cases, we have tolook.

We are about to be eaten by a dragon, you're crawling on bleeding hands through bat droppings, and you're worried about being proper?

I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times ...

I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

You're the devil, you know that, right?" His smile grew and became just a bit wicked. "You know it, sweetheart.

Expats of any country are quick to lose their sense of humour, beaten down by a lifetime of defending the land they no longer live ...

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Okay. You're the best Apollyon there is." He tipped his head to the side and arched a brow. "I'm the only Apollyon there is right ...

I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband is trying to do.

My eyes always keep searching,for something inexpressible,above the far away sky.I long to get lost,inside the evening-twilight.Silence always tickles me - in a strange way;I ...

When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle ...

The work that I have been doing on television has been important to me because I have had the opportunity to portray very strong, intelligent ...

I like to make you know your master," Crane said. "It's only fair. The rest of the time you've got me so thoroughly enslaved, I ...

Only an unscientific ignoramus would hold to the thought that nothing created everything.

At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until ...

We sat on the floor eating donuts, completely dazed and hung over. I looked up at the window every so often to gaze at the ...

To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the ...

Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.

I had my hands on you last night, my mouth, and everything I touched was delicate, beautiful. Something I want to keep safe. That's the ...

Open it at that sad madrigal that begins "Que m'importe que tu sois sage? Sois belle! et sois triste" and you will find yourself worshiping ...

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

I want a love that don't mean a thing.

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical ...

I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew ...

So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and ...

Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.

In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.

If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when ...

Do right simply because it is right.

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in ...

Everything is silent again: but it isn't the same silence. It's raining: tapping lightly against the frosted glass windows; if there are any more masked ...

So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much ...

Things that happen in seven years: Brad Pitt in Tibet. The itch.

I believe myself that there's a great deal more interest and engagement among Americans than our politicians recognize.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular ...

Submissives are not greedy, she reminded herself, even if they secretly want to be.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

A lighthouse is kind of like an angel. Most of the people the light helps take it for granted. Until it's not there.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

There are a lot of girls I've found attractive, but we could never date. If a girl can make me laugh, that's really attractive to ...

If she had known who was a perfect match for Karen/Kelly, she wouldn't put cake on her plate, but instead add poison to her coffee.

On the set of 'Community,' we quote 'Community' to each other. We're a lost cause. We're like a bunch of little kids running around and ...

Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a ...

The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the ...

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not important. I was ...

Thank people who help you because they make you happy. Thank people who don't help you because they make you strong.

It's high time your grandmother learned to be proud of the grandson she's got, rather than the one she thinks she ought to have - ...

Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

The only good mushroom is a cooked mushroom.

Sometimes you just have to put everything you got outthere and screw the consequences. Sometimes you have to jump and trust someone else to catch ...

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger

I personally killed the girl, Glimmer, and the boy from district 1. As I try to avoid looking at his family, I learn that his ...

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into ...

No matter what happens to me, I will always love the people of Syria,

You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take ...

Go in peace, James Carstairs.