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You can't tie a rope around the ice sheet. You can't build a wall around the ice sheets.
Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.
All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
I've been on stage plenty of times, and one of the things about being a stage actress is you have a 3-month run to revisit ...
And I can say this, most of the people who have recorded my songs are songwriters themselves.
Hey hey its Brooke im 12 and having trouble my teacher told me to get on here sooo yaaa see ya soon pic uplaodin soon!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, ...
Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very ...
It's a fruitless task, explaining yourself," he said. He was enjoying confessing the truth for once. "Either people get you, or they don't. In fact, ...
If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel ...
I just became Camryn Parrish.
A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.
At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.
I watched him playing with the long blades of grass, weaving them into patterns as he hummed an unfamiliar song, a waltz."What are you doing?" ...
Princesa came to rancho one day after her owner no want her. Says too much horse for him, too wild. But he's wrong. She's not ...
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own ...
I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.
It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down - not because ...
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of ...
Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.
Excuses are the nails that are used to build the house of failure.
Gary Paulsen - If you work on something hard and get some success. You can get some nice rewards.
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
Churches start looking for bodies to fill slots rather than spiritually alive saints to assume responsibility.
As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understand what I am on about. ...
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to tell them.
If this was love, love had been overrated.
Because you can't expect to be treated great if you don't first believe that you are great.
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what ...
It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
I am a cat. As yet I have no name
For us it meant true equality: nakedness. We trembled in the cold. A
It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
Are you a Tigger or an Eyore?
De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.
With him in defense, we could play Arthur Askey in goal. (after signing Ron Yeats)
One of the biggest myths debunked by science is that dogs see only in black and white. Contrary to that popular belief, dogs have dichromatic ...
I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.
Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.
Stay away from iodized table salt. It's just bad and doesn't help food taste good.
If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
There's something about her, I remember thinking, a little mysterious. I tried to absorb the feeling for as long as I could before I went ...
The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud ...
I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand ...
You can do anything you want, so long as you're willing to pay the bill when it comes in.
... nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.
The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.
God is the word that speaks itself.
A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of ...
I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.
During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.
Rethink Your Success Mindset: With the right mindset, everything that you experience, along your journey towards success, is a blessing.
The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.
Life is the best thing that's ever been invented.
Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I ...
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the ...
It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the ...
My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
This is the reason why there are currently about 6,000 startups in Israel. And the nature of the Israeli entrepreneur - who is not afraid ...
Man who does not control his temper is like a city whose wall is broken down.
All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly ...
Either way, I'm under your skin. Either way, I win.
What can 'scape the eyeOf God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.Omniscient!
Modeling chose me, I didn't choose modeling.
Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is ...
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.
We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are ...
Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes them go mad, cattle grow addicted to locoweed despite its awful side ...
Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit ...
Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ...
To say he has a glass chin is an insult to glass.
Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my wife in a ...
Nothing is more uplifting in all of life than righteous anger.
The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
There are two types of optimism, real optimism and fake, cowardly optimism. Real optimism sees the Valley of Dry Bones and says, 'These bones will ...
Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never ...
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
The lack of effective and charismatic leaders always forced the Muslim youth to choose the wrong role models.
It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how ...
Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going ...
I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There ...
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', ...
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar ...
We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
In order to abide in the love of God it is essential for anger and 'hate' to attain their maximum intensity but be directed against ...
I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.