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I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir ...

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

TV is tricky. You can do some stuff and people will tune out and never tune back in. It's sort of like putting a bad ...

Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. ...

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers ...

'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.

But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.

If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick ...

Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor ...

The man was Halpin Frayser. He lived in St. Helena, but where he lives now is uncertain, for he is dead.

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

There is nothing I fear more than someone without memory. A person without memory is free to do anything she likes.

The successful implementation of creative ideas within an organization.

Even chance meetings are the result of karma ... Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's ...

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a matter.

People ask, "What do you think about being called Puff Mommy?" Puff's a very successful young man, so I don't have a problem if that's ...

Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun's rays to reach ...

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any ...

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank you" too often, which was branded as "bourgeois ...

When you are made to pay for such insolence, I shall revel in your ruin.

I'm grateful for my whole family, but my dad is like Obi-Wan Kenobi, Superman, and Evel Knievel all at one time. I can think I ...

If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere ...

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. ...

Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates ...

I'm a lifelong stutterer.

If you want your dreams to manifestNever put money first

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who ...

America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even ...

A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair ...

I'm not strong enough for this," he whispered in her ear - like he didn't want anyone to hear that coming out of his mouth. ...

In his mind a protective glaze had been applied to the crystal forms of high abstraction: he loved to regard them, and to wonder at ...

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; ...

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Theories then are dangerous things.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing ...

I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most ...

To be in thousands of states of mind simultaneously as you perform simple physical tasks gives you a reverence for life. Each of these outer ...

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be ...

Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my grip on that, and perhaps life both ...

As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column ...

Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when ...

Your kitchen is not inferior to a queen's boudoir!' I replied with a pleasant smile, 'but we must leave it now; for the gentlemen may ...

I came from a Hindi medium school ... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top ...

He would be, she now knew, a whole lot dominant in bed and a little bit dirty.-Gabrielle about Adam

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra ...

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it ...

I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

Men held powerful stations in life, and yet the initiate knew their worldly

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes ...

Exploratory wells located invariably by a set of deterministic seismic interpretations are drilled into reservoirs under uncertainty that is invariably poorly quantified, the geologic models ...

The woods are beautiful. They're my friends, the trees, and I can feel them smiling down at me. I

When the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

He really needed to stop being so hot while his hands were on me.

The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by reasoning. In China's Confucian society, the best ...

The Secret To The Universe Is Hidden Within Our Language. To Discover It Might Be To Destroy It - So It Should Forever Remain A ...

I'm happy with who I am inside. I'd hate to have accolades and all that and not really be happy with who I was. So ...

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is ...

Improvement in one area often adversely affects another area, and striving for perfection in one may lead to failure in another.

Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

We developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms.

The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.

A love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved - God - without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage ...

I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some ...

I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be changed. ...

You can. With God's help you can close the gap between the person you are and the person you want to be.

You're finally there, Robbie. On stage in front of huge audiences. All of your hard work has paid off. It's your time.He didn't want any ...

When we are forced to stop the noise around us and in us, we begin to hear everything that is not us, and this is ...

In a sense, the artwork is the most important thing in getting somebody to buy a book. The person probably won't buy a book if ...

The most likely victim of spontaneous human combustion is a solitary woman, 75 percent of all known cases of SHC are women. I tell her ...

If you increase the sales tax ... everybody would be taxed.

Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.

Learn from your mistakes. The number one reason I see entrepreneurs failing isn't because they make mistakes, but they keep on making the same ones ...

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this ... this''School?

TLC has helped me to know that as a musician, I can talk about anything; that there are no barriers, and that you can be ...

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' ...

We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on ...

Work, work, work. I like to keep myself busy. I start to get a little stir-crazy during downtime. That's when I turn to working out ...

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and ...

If I were a young coach today, I would be extremely careful in selecting assistants.

It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant ...

I like it when you reach into a vending machine to grab your candy bar, and that flap goes up to block you from reaching ...

Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I ...

Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those ...

Take a one way trip down to Larry Land!

Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to ... use words.

You're not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are responsible for how you react to what happens to you. You ...

To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the ...

Secret History of the Mongols:

Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and ...

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.