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Look within, find strength for thy soul.

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

Fashion should be fun. It shouldn't be labelled 'intellectual.'

Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive.

Are you, Mr. Manwhore ofthe Century seriously trying to give me relationship advice? - Shaw

I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole.

Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my ...

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

When you turn your back on someone, they come running after you.

In the moment in which we now find ourselves, we have the ability to focus in on and do the things that serve us for ...

I am afraid, I cannot and will not 'surrender' to Orthodoxy!!My life in itself is an 'Epic experiment' of nature and new living!!And I am ...

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series ...

It was Monday, July 1

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any ...

Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's ...

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe ...

We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's ...

I can't say I have enough experience with Hollywood to feel that I've encountered racism there. I can tell you that I did about five ...

Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe.

I guess, all he was ever guilty of, was making me fall in love with him, and making me believe that he liked me too.But ...

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for ...

[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

Without joy in your life you are powerless.

When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it create it! The key is to design ...

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their ...

I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used ...

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

Don't cry," he whispers. "Just let me do what I do best, baby. Let me take care of you." "It's hard for me to let ...

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

This might be heaven!We might be living in heaven right now! And we might be the angels!

For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to ...

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common ...

He was Gully Foyle, the oiler, wiper, bunkerman; too easy for trouble, too slow for fun, too empty for friendship, too lazy for love.

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

... in my spell of uncertainty as to where I was...

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

A lot of actors say that no villain wants to be a villain, generally. They don't might being evil, maybe, but they have an agenda ...

Fractional Multiplicity' allows for a minute amount of our energy to be present in all places at all times.

The pictures are everywhere. If you're open, they will find you.

Pity the mother who assumes the name without being all this implies!

I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are ...

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly - like eating pleasant poison.

When the wolf howls and the moon dimshope fades with the waning light. Evil lurks at every turn as shadows waltz across the ebony night. ...

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance ...

Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them?

Ouch. Cursing - not so dashing.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.

Tall, dark, and hot leaned against a pillar, watching me as I took my place in line. Tousled dark hair went every which way on ...

Shiva" is Life. Shiva can be split as Sha+ee+Va where Sha stands for Shareeram or body, ee stands for eeshwari or life giving energy and ...

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche ...

What becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He ...

The gospel is: a Christ-centered story to be told a hope-filled message to be proclaimed a revealed truth to be defended a new status to ...

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.[Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask ...

I never really had a real career trajectory idea. I just like a lot of different kind of movies, I wanna make a lot of ...

When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the ...

It's okay to give our hearts away, just as long as the person we give them to is worthy.

He looks good in that Eagles jersey, doesn't he?" Chloe nods. "So cute." "I love baseball." "The Eagles play football, Everly.

Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch hold of it; ...

Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.

Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

I must survive. I have promises to keep.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

Teppic hadn't been educated. Education had just settled on him, like dandruff.

It was in May 1934 that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR granted Birobidzhan the status of the Jewish Autonomous Region, ...

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth ...

I took a lot of writing courses.

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently ...

Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

Every time you get rejected, say: 'Next!'

A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

He's dead, then?" said Ridmark, the cold healing magic spreading through him. "He's a burned corpse with a soulblade stuck in his chest," said Gavin. ...

Analyzing everyday situations using a systematic approach similar to that utilized by physicians when investigating a medical mysteries can result in better choices.

I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got ...

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is ...

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you ...

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country ...

If you close your eyes, no one can see you...