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Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater ...

If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being ...

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

When you judge you are limiting yourself, you are limiting your reach.

Men go to musicals. Women are the ones who buy the tickets for plays.

Only in love is there trust - even the possibility of trust.

Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. ...

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.

A nominee [to Supreme Court] must possess the competence, character and temperament to serve on the bench.

A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races, Kolovas-Jones's skin was

[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their ...

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and ...

Fielding's research group suggests that rapid weight lifting as opposed to the slow mode of traditional lifting may help maintain fast-twitch muscle power with age.

Thus, an inhibition center developed below what in humans is the temporal lobe, to turn off much of the functioning of the reptilian brain; and ...

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

Don't give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.

And then you show up with the voice from my nightmare, and you call me an asshole.

We need a morality based upon love of life, upon pleasure in growth and positive achievement, not upon repression and prohibition.

Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ...

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part ...

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

Over to our house for Joe's sausage lasagna. A half hour later, Julie was in bed and two of my very favorite people were standing ...

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind ...

My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard ...

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be ...

One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other.

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

I don't think we're going to see the price of oil going down in the near future, that's the reality.

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

Then there's those wizards on it, who must all be gifted hydrophobes - " "You mean they hate water?" said Twoflower. "No, that wouldn't work," ...

When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.

Many learn from the pastbut few do something with it. Take Action. Struggles bring strength to strive and succeed.

Dusty, empty shoe boxes, stacked taller and wider than her slim body, wobbled as she pressed her back against them, tucking her bony knees into ...

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine ...

Do you think you were locked in a cupboard as a child? Cecilia had asked him once (she wouldn't have put it past his mother), ...

Sunny wintry days. The idyll of (inner) loneliness. What am I going to do with my life?

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.

Never guess a woman's age. Never guess a woman's weight. Never even talk about weight in front of a woman. And never, ever ask a ...

We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle.

You think that sadness is better than happiness''No. But it is important.

Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.

Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs lightly ...

All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.

One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. An apple tree growing from an apple seed growing in an ...

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not ... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, ...

It's good to know where you've come from.

Peace is found with honesty among wicked men.

I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!""You did!" she retorted. "And although I can't ...

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

( ... ) unkept secrets always manage to escape, under a door, through a keyhole or an open window, until everyon knows everything and nobody ...

I didn't know how to hold my lips.

No matter what I'm doing, I cant help thinking about those who are gone. I catch myself laughing and remember that it's a disgrace to ...

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to ...

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

There is but one mind and one thinker every other being thinks from him.

He was so far inside of me, body, heart, and soul, that I was almost afraid of how deep our connection was. It was about ...

I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - ...

Achieving accomplishments without first making a sacrifice to gain them does not make you accomplished. That just makes you a lucky bastard.

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But ...

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does ...

I'm glad that Singaporeans were receptive to my message and have elected me to serve as their president.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.

You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage.

The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then ...

I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of ...

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived ...

No one ever fell in love gracefully.

I wish to walk and keep the ways of God

I don't know humans, but I know fools. And I know the surest way to encourage fools to follow a wicked man is to tell ...

Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ...

Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like ...

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

If I've already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is ...

Babelgum has no ties to individual content owners and distributors, and as a result our editorial strategy is primarily 'user-centric.' That strategy ensures the platform ...

Actions are merely an indicator of a problem contained deeper in the heart and in the beliefs of a person. Individual racism cannot be changed ...

Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got ...

Some people are swimmers and they're born to swim. They're like fish in the water. I will definitely say it's someplace that I feel at ...

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you ...

California: The west coast of Iowa.