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The biggest misconception about success is "you're lucky". It's not a coincidence, it takes hard work. Prayer without work is dead.

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.

Just an ordinary day. "And then - gone.

Why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems ...

We've never been to Israel. I'd like to play in Israel.

Let's go on a road trip and like it, not dread it! There are no barriers, there is no fear.

I've been to Philadelphia a lot of times over the years, playing the old Celebrity Room and most of the other clubs around there that ...

Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, and you don't feel like it - say no, thanks. Don't fake your way into ...

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would ...

Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other's TV.

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was ...

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Christianity is founded on, and grounded in, a cross - not a ladder.

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

...there's no mistake if you can resolve it, whether it's in your music or in your life. Sometimes the mistake motivates you or elevates you ...

Every success story has a secret,Even if it's a love story.

You didn't sleep?""No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like herself anymore. I don't even remember what she looked like.

Little I askAnd that little is not granted.There are few crumbsIn this world any more.

A pie?" Now she just sounded dubious. "Was it an evil pie?" "Yeah. Yeah, it was.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

Traffic was stopped dead and I nudged the window switch and listened to the blowing horns approach peak volume. We were trapped in our own ...

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

And she tried to breathe.

I was always brought up to believe in Him [God], and to behave in certain ways. That is what my parents taught me and I ...

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

I remained a member of the section till 1947, becoming Director in 1946.

A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.

When you are wired to God in a unique way, nothing can separate you from the love of God

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

I dial up the suicide prevention hotline, get a busy signal, and wonder if that's a sign of the times.

These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go ...

You were never really my father, he might say, or You were the only father I ever knew. Both statements were equally true, no matter ...

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, ...

I have ceased concerning myself with how things look to others, Abigail Rook. I suggest you do the same. In my experience, others are generally ...

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

We take a dash of sexiness, a dash of spice, and blend it in with awesomeness and glory. Then we dance.

There's something in our makeup and in our bodies that really wants to luxuriate more in just the joy of being alive and not always ...

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if ...

In what twisted universe would a girl who's just been dumped still want to be friends with the boy who dumped her?

The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball ...

The universe expanded by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in .00000000000000000000000000000000001 second. It was as if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up to ...

I WOULD NOT HAVE RETURNED TO this year of 1966 if I had not experienced one of those life-changing encounters on the road that rise ...

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.

The rule is: don't use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

Everyone has memories, Finn. Your prophecies are what matter. The visions that descend on you are the great gift and strangeness of the Starseer. They're ...

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Any walk towards the reason and goodness is a holy walk!

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is ...

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists ...

For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in ...

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's ...

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

She was so ugly that her face could stop a sundial.

Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.

By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and ...

Good design is not an applied veneer.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time!

While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills ...

Patience perforce with willful choler meeting/Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting./I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,/Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall.

He cracked his crooked smile that made all women swoon except the ones who wanted to slap him. Faye was a fence-sitter on the subject.

It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not ...

I know what you're thinking," he says."No. You don't.""You're wondering if you should kiss me good-bye.

To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or ...

This passage and escaped via the cafeteria or

When you get to Heaven you won't need faith because you'll be able to see it and know it all then. You won't need hope ...

No way it's up to me to decide which life is "better." So if it isn't up to me...I don't get it, ma. How can ...

There is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to ...

When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.

I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

What you achieve, endures throughout time

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

And what is good, Phaedrus,And what is not goodNeed we ask anyone to tell us these things?

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

And we know Bruce Campbell from way back, so that was a lot of fun.

The road to a brighter humanity is though the minds of our children. We can either fill them with anger & fear or inspiring empowerment. ...

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

I rolled my eyes and set my head in my hands, as if it was too much for me, and it almost was.

I would not sing you to sleep. I would press my lips to your ear and hope the terror in my heart stirs you.

Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, ...

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

*I love climbing mountains in all fields (Whatever was this fields).*I love tranquility and it is more for me precious than money.*Honesty is a few ...

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.

We do not stop running because we get old, we get old because we stop running

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight ...

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for ... And ...