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'Deserves' is an impossible thing to decide. No one deserves anything. Thank God we don't get what we deserve.
It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - ...
View change as the one constant in your life. Welcome it. Expect it. Anticipate it.
Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.
All of us men and women alike have to understand and acknowledge how stereotypes and biases cloud our beliefs and perpetuate the status quo.
In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
I dream of a planet where the science of the mind, brings the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran, and all other scriptures together and binds ...
The soul that has no established aim loses itself
Film is more of novelty, because I've done so much theater over many years. I'm in love with making movies. Also, I find it easier ...
Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.
Just know life keeps moving forward, and the hits life gives you are for a reason, to make you a better, stronger and wiser person. ...
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
Despair is the constant companion of the clown.
What is history if not one endless assault on love?
Sometimes shit happens and life can be a bastard. I'm scared of that crap. I don't know if I can fight or survive life's shit ...
Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in ...
Why is it fair that I should be paying a higher percentage of taxes than anyone else?
Everyone who is critical of Israeli policy is deluged by crazed messages intended to flood their email system or, more insidiously, passwords are accessed and ...
He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the ...
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room ...
If you like to live an abundant life, express joy and gratitude for what you have.
What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age ...
The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom ...
Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, ...
I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. ...
Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden ... The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The ...
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, ...
America, you must be born again!
I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly beautiful, but I just want to be healthy.
Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.
Embrace the beauty of good moment.
The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and ...
The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.
I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.
You know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her.
I remember the first time I went to Europe, I had someone take a picture of me there, so I could really see myself there. ...
I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.
To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.
Earnestness is the most important thing.
For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions ...
When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to ...
We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up ...
Sometimes you need to do things that hurt in order to protect the ones you love.
I'm going to ruin you. I'll be your first, and I'll fuck you so thoroughly that I'll be your last too. You won't want any ...
This was taken when my brother was last on leave. My mom's new boyfriend took it. Now there's an insane person. Well, he's from the ...
I opened the diary that is my life this morning, and began again with the words - I am grateful.
Extraordinarily, Heaviside didn't bother to patent his invention. The patent was filed instead by AT&T, which had nothing to do with the discovery but nonetheless ...
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the ...
But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not ...
People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.
The so-called Transcendentalists are not the only people who deal in Transcendentals. On the contrary, we seem to see that the Utilitarians,the every-day world's people ...
Kaylee giggled as he tunneled up inside her sleeve.Out popped his head for a quick look, then he took leave.He enjoyed scaling up, down and ...
The tour bus is always fun, and there's plenty of time to watch movies. Actually, Kanye introduced me to the movie 'Step Brothers.' We were ...
A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they ...
How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.
We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?
If we do the right thing with right intent that is actually our success.
The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin
With men one could have clever, uplifting conversations, and men understood the work of an artist; but everything else-idle talk, tenderness, playfulness, love, contentment unmarred ...
We are interested in what we love.We love what we are interested in.What we are interested in also loves us and is interested in us.And ...
It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will ...
Politics is always related to the history and genealogy.
There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste ...
That's how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .
I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House ...
The most important things in life aren't things.
But even in the darkest parts, I have immediate access to Him.
The implicit requirements of the committed relationship Joshua was pursuing with Kimiko assumed spending Saturday nights together for the purposes of intimacy.
If you're good at it, you can win.
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us.
You don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress.
The odors of perfume were fanned out on the summer air by the whirling vents of the grottoes where the women hid like undersea creatures, ...
The model of "social order." Briefly, a social order may be defined as the consequence of any set of moral norms that regulates the way ...
Emember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.
If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.
You know what? Fuck you man. Cant believe you'd come in here like this, especially after all we had to say in the office today.
It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.
I love you," he said again, like a creed. "I love you so thoroughly it feels like you're in my DNA. Like you must be ...
The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes
Slash was about my height, and he used the alignment of our bodies to his greatest advantage. I let it go on for a few ...
Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.
I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.
I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there ...
A society where you're not allowed to blow your own trumpet is so much more nuanced, sophisticated and interesting than the grim world of literalism ...
God's present is his presence. His greatest gift is himself.
Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are ...
I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be ...
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the ...
We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements.
It was just me and him, there in that place where tragedy had happened, where I thought my life had ended. But somehow, he made ...
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, ...
Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead ...