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Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

Hector!" He whips around. "You were never, never, going to be just a diversion to me." He sighs, nodding. "That was unfair of me," he ...

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

What's this shit?" Ray demanded, looking at the salesclerk. "Honey, truth hurts, but ain't no way you're a Magnum." "Well, I ain't no medium!" The ...

I think Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond. I remember at the beginning, they were all saying, 'Oh, he won't work,' and I thought, 'Yeah, ...

It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still ...

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up ...

Dr. Franklin says it is the eyes of others and not our own eyes which ruin us. If all the world were blind except myself ...

We should make it as easy as possible to be able to get a legal work visa - not citizenship, not a green card. Just ...

I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I ...

I hope to return. I'll do so if I'm not killed. Probably will anyway.

How she envied Diesel. He could love someone without knowing them.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

For justice is a blunt knife, both as a philosophy and as a judge.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I ...

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

Oh, I thought. It's on, bitch!

Case turned back, in time to catch the briefest flash of a black rose, its petals sheened like leather, the black stem thorned with bright ...

For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to ...

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.

Trying to eliminate worldly temptations only makes our spiritual growth limited.

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.

Then I am a hopeful romantic.

But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you'resharing a reality that doesn't exist.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never ...

Newer and better ... healing isn't about getting back to the old, it's about going to that next level and experiencing what God has in ...

They disrupted the performance

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger ...

You're doing fine, Cheryl," he said. "Don't worry about it too much. You're green, but you're tough. And tough is what matters the most out ...

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

But i hate this date, and will always hate this day every year fromnow on whenever it comes around

I have found that if you invest in the lives of people, well-feed sheep will reproduce themselves.

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument ... If we can lead people into ...

Harder to know that her father had sent her here. Hard, horrible, the the way he had looked at her, disowned her, accused her of ...

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more ...

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

About two months after this photo was taken I was born and my mum died - clean swap. Caring about someone I never knew doesn't ...

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't ...

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We ...

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in ...

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for ...

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

You will make mistakes. I promise. Get used to that idea. Don't think of them as mistakes. Just file them away as methods that didn't ...

I'm a friend in the context that we helped fight a battle together for survival of the American Football League. But I don't consider myself ...

Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.

I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then ...

Paying the iron price.

Complete your task. Seek no reward. Make no claims. Without faltering fully choose to do what you must do.

Work that only comes from the head isn't any good ... You need to find a way to bring your body into your work ... ...

It was simpler in those days. We could say they'd died for their country. We didn't have to tell them the details; they didn't expect ...

In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.

It will never again be what it was. It's a wonder that I didn't foresee the cataclysm, but then I never really envision the finish ...

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it ... eases his way to action by ...

He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

Our experience in Hawaii has shown that we can place common sense limits on gun sales, demonstrate our respect for gun owners, and, most importantly, ...

Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What ...

Make it stop," Vincent murmured, coming out of sleep and pulling the blanket over his head. "I think your mutt is howling for you.

It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.

All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.

When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time ...

Exactly. They dumped gasoline all over the gym and set fire to it. When no one was there training, luckily," Olympia says. "How can you ...

I believe in my writing.

I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be ...

Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It ...

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in ...

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer ...

Lithographiclandscape beyond the forgottenocean of the innermost earwhere one boy, with a wolf for a heart, wantsto eat the songbird nesting inside the other

I have to do what's right.

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, ...

I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do ...

I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

The bus's wipers slapped out of synch, like poorly rehearsed ballroom dancers, arms of a neophyte swimmer dogpaddling, wobbling grocery-cart wheel and its unencumbered mate.

I love attention. Maybe my desire for attention is a little too out of control, but I'm very honest.

When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or ...

You don't want to wait for Owen?"Ryder just sneered at him. "Afraid of a little sweat, sweetheart?""Sunstroke maybe.""Find your balls, and let's go get it ...

Local television is a slightly different story. It is under much more pressure in the same way that all local businesses are, whether that's a ...

I want to die as myself.

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

Asked why we should strive to know God, my answer would be selfish: I want to be a creator. This is the ultimate promise of ...

God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.

Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over ...

The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.

I've never said anything worth quoting. You can quote me on that. My characters' words are another matter.

Of course people need not be always talking well. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well.

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be ...