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However, there are people who are difficult, almost all of the time. It's like being difficult is in their DNA. These people are bloodsucking, confidence ...

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of ...

I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. ...

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Read non-interesting books!

I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

Good," Kingsley said. "Now let's build a kingdom.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.

I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and ...

We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own ...

Music is the first thing I ever cared greatly about. I've been singing and writing songs since I was six or seven.

But the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one.

A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a work of art, ...

There's nothing - there's nothing - as action-packed as 'Hawaii Five-O.'

I got caught watching the one person I was supposed to not care about

This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the ...

Fitz yawned, and she patted Mr. Snuggles on the head as she stood to leave. He mumbled something, the words too sleepy to be coherent. ...

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say ...

A week later he was in Tokyo, his face reflected in an elevator's gold-veined mirror for this three-floor ascent of the aggressively nondescript O My ...

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It ...

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.

Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal ...

More than husband and consort, Albert was everything to Victoria, and Osborne was unthinkable without him.

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to ...

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel ...

I love wearing a well tailored suit. Strutting in my sartorial repute.

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? ...

Some of my funniest thoughts come to me while I'm taking a shower.

The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent.

When you live in a small town like Iowa Falls, there's not a lot to do, so we would, as a family, watch a ton ...

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things ...

One of the hardest questions I have been asked is 'How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps?' I have also ...

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of ...

A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into ...

Dude! If you scream in my ear again I will punch you in the uterus.

Bella,leave the aggressive stuff to me." My heart quirks in my chest. I may not like this guy but that sounded so hot. "Um ... ...

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give ...

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

I wonder if he had a Cathy and who she was.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

No one has, or ever will, be able to experience or express your singular point of view, which is why it is so important, both ...

I think comics can be the basis for great films, but I think the focus of such a project should be on making the film ...

But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and ...

Remixes come very quickly, because you already have the melody and the vocals. I have a great passion for music, so it doesn't matter to ...

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important ...

We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the ...

I think it's great that so many people are enjoying climbing. I've always loved climbing; I don't see why other people wouldn't enjoy it just ...

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up ...

Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to ...

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. ...

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.

And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice ... ) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The ...

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a ...

You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I ...

We have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, ...

You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.

Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I'm ...

One day, when I can afford you, I will sign you,' he said, before we went our separate ways.

Writing for young children I find I often use particular jokes with words and exaggerated, funny events, but some of these haunt the more complex ...

Lysandra said softly, "I will not apologize to you. I serve her. And I am willing to spend the rest of my life pretending to ...

If you knew her, you'd understand Eve is no one's mark. Regardless, I wouldn't betray her for anything. Or anyone.

He comes out in shorts and the same V-neck shirt. One of his legs from just below the knee is a prosthesis. It's made of ...

You will find liberals always rooting for savages against civilization.

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, ...

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

It privileges certain forms of religion at the expense of the rest of the world's religious and spiritual practices, enacting a series of "mini-establishments" in ...

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to ...

As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive ...

I did a film that's on YouTube of me reading hate mail with a woman playing the cello in the background.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write and read much, ...

FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that ...

A cross without offense in the world is a cross without power in the world.

Just introduce a woman, conspiracies succeed; Of soldiers, or their weapons, there really is no need.

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking ...

Baseball has all the money.

[ ... ] how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves?

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

Cakes as good as the coins they cost.

Did you guys have sex?" Jacob grasped my shoulders, giving me a little shake. "Oh my God, girl, details - I need details. What is ...

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit ...

When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she ...