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I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.

Note the lessons a broken heart has taught you but don't ever alter the love you can give. Don't let a broken heart hinder your ...

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one ...

The business of return migration is a phenomenon that historians have indeed begun to look at, but it is rather an ignored and underplayed story ...

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.

That's the thing - you do a job like 'Shameless,' and suddenly that's why you can get a job like 'The Virgin Queen', not because ...

It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina!

In Lisbon, a street cry gloated over the Spanish defeat: Which ships got home? The ones the English missed. And where are the rest? The ...

Just be happy that it is what it is and not what it could be because after all, it could always be worse

I am part of a network of people monitoring what's happening at ancient sites in Iraq and Syria - from space. We can see clearly ...

It also occurred to him that Minds wrote voluminous biographies of each other in order to cover the odd potentially valuable or embarrassing nugget of ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.

To make a movie, and we can call it a movie or we can call it a piece of art, to make a movie that ...

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release ...

The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.

The last thing we wanted to do was offend you.""The last thing you wanted was for me to take offense.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and ...

Rose never would have done anything like that,' he countered. He paused to reconsider, and I could've sworn there was a hint of a smile ...

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I ...

Great habits improve performance and brings great success.

I take showers to think.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; ...

I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely ...

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.

The cycle of abuse interspersed with occasional bouts of kindness keeps you stuck, waiting and hoping for the kindness to return. And it does, on ...

There should be someone in the world who loves you despite you," she whispers to her mother.

The basic idea of integral transformative practice (ITP) is simple: the more aspects of our being that we simultaneously exercise, the more likely that transformation ...

Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and ...

I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting ...

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't ...

[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about ...

This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.

By the time Whitefield died in 1770, an inconceivable 80 percent of the population of the American colonies had heard him preach at least once.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

Who can remember the pangs and sweetness of those early years? We remember our first real love no more clearly than the illusions that caused ...

Every time you get something, give something away.

It was the kind of smile that no one further than ten inches from her face would perceive. Her expression was so lightly cast to ...

Storytelling is the important thing.

It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic setting, ...

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

I never hire a stylist.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your ...

As writers, the world is not about individual expression entirely because we are producing works of literature and getting them out into the world.

A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of ...

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

I would rather preach one sermon than write a thousand books.

I had a totally normal relationship with my body.

There's more geeks in this world than jocks. And, most of us are on line!

I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do.

What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent. And we'll have ...

In Unity there is strength; We can move mountains when we're united and enjoy life -Without unity we are victims. Stay united.

There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, ...

Can we just get on with this already?"(7).

Vampirism: (n) 1. The condition of being a vampire, marked by the need to ingest blood and extreme vulnerability to sunlight. 2. The act of ...

CALVIN:When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take ...

She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.

In middle school, I had this one teacher who would kick me out all the time. He just didn't like me. I could ask a ...

Crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. - Apple's "Think Different" commercial, 1997

You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you.""Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention ...

I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out ...

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.

And To be or not to be, that is the question;Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous ...

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts,

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person ...

Never be afraid to learn. Have a good amount of resilience and enjoy the journey.

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

And at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.

If this is not already a habit of yours, now is the time to begin reading a portion of the Bible every day. Ideally, read ...

It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you ...

My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting ...

How would you like to be in the middle of a Vega sandwich?

Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile ...

I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.

Psephology isn't a hate crime.

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and ...

No one chooses to raise children alone.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him ...

Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.

I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.

Create a good idea and send it to the universe and then let the universe decide itself what to do with it!

People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but ...