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In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.
If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;
In this sorry world, the symbol is the thing.
I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'
There's an Elvis movie on the marquee sign, we've all seen at least three times.
For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and ...
Sheep do best when they have personal contact with their shepherd. It was intended that the Church would continue after his departure to heaven. There ...
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your motive in following, ...
Fear Godp and keep his commandments,q for this is the duty of all mankind.r 14For God will bring every deed into judgment,s including every hidden ...
I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably ...
If you really want to be an uncommon leader, you're going to have to find a way to get much of your vision seen, implemented, ...
Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.
Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to ...
What we need,' Henry says, 'is a fresh start. A blank slate. Let's call her Tabula Rasa.
My sister had picked a gorgeous beach in northern Washington State called Gray's Harbor.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
Why choose when you can have everything?
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.)
I don't care if we only have a few days together, I want to spend every second by your side. I want to memorize every ...
What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.
She reached down, found his hand with hers.Their fingers tangled, wrists pressed together. No pulse between them.
Too frightened to set a precedent, but quite happy to pass the buck.
Take the reins of your life in your hands every day. Get up and put a smile on your face, and feel grateful for this ...
I want to be able to create characters for as long as I can and I want to tell stories for as long as I ...
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way. ...
I respect you when I don't try to tell you how to live your life, how to dress, how to walk, how to talk, how ...
It's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?
Never allow a man to devour your growth in order for you to remain two levels beneath him. You weren't created to be a stepping ...
Hell, we were kids.
Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God ... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is ...
Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.
But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous ...
Appropriate boundaries create integrity.
Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.
My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them ...
I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took ...
I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout.
I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!
People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead.
For to be over-developed is to hasten decay, and this is against Tao, and what is against Tao will soon cease to be.
While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and ...
Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk shouldbe taken as if it is the only thing you ...
Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was ...
Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!
So I learned that after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison.
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and ...
Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move ...
Your children are perfume of your love.
I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."
The greatest success in life is to feel I'm something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.
Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.
I hear it now. I don't remember hearing it before. It's funny how something happens, andthen everything else becomes referenced as before or after. It's ...
Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if ...
The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The ...
Olivia Lydall was too innocent, too emotional to understand his world. The realization that he was drawn to her was humiliating. It revealed a weakness ...
I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a ...
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and ...
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
If you do not move in synchronization with time, you will be left behind.
I'll never forget the moans and cries of the poor detainees in Jordan when they were suffering torture. I remember putting my hands over my ...
A lady is known by the product she endorses.
The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's ...
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he's discovered a girl; for the first time he's seen that even the biggest pests ...
Lower your gaze from the world and turn your heart away from it ...
Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that serve as doorways ...
If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.
I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It ...
There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big ...
I mistakenly believed that my life had finally reached the peak of Crazy Bullshit Mountain. Hindsight
You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always ...
Know'st not whate'er we do is done in love?
And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of ...
The evening lay out against the skyLike a patient, etherised on a table
I love Katy Perry! She gave me a song for my second album.
If knowledge were located in the Pleiades (a constellation of stars), the Persians would surely attain it
Emma wanted a real man's hands on her body. Big and rough hands belonging to a strong, tough man who would grab her and throw ...
I don't wear my faith on my sleeve, but I definitely do walk with it every day in my heart.
If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am ...
What you feed in yourself that grows.
Three weeks without sleep, and everything becomes an out-of-body experience.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save ...
Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're ...
Love them to death. Sookie to Pam
In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.
I am an actress. I am not a movie star.
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
You're going to listen to me, and for once you're going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren't there.
Yes, it's possible to get repetitive stress injuries from heavy computer or video game use. But they are also caused by musical instruments and by ...
It's awful, ins't it, how I remember crap like that? Tiny, insignificant details in the midst of a massive disaster.
Everything bad about France was transferred to Quebec.
Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking ...