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Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support ...
There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
To keep a secret is to lie every time." La Vedette, Gloriella
Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who ...
Someone comes and drags you in front of the camera, and they're already saying, "Okay, we got it. Moving on." You get one or two ...
Do you call that a head on your shoulders, or a blessed dead-eye?" cried Long John. "Don't rightly know, don't you! Perhaps you don't happen ...
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody ...
'But even I know that in your line of work, there's a difference between being a volunteer and being volun-told.'
The point [of the gospels] is not whether Jesus is God, but what God is doing in and through Jesus. What is this embodied God ...
This softening she sees in me isn't enough to make me affectionate, but it's just enough to render me inept. I can't give her what ...
Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news ...
Whoever is first to dominate the most important segment of a market with viral potential will be the last mover in the whole market.
Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance ...
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.
Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War?
The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.
Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
What is a woman's greatest virtue?Patience.
God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking ...
I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too.
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.
The real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose.
Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?[Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.
Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!
I won't tell if you won't.
I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have ...
Hisssss!""Hiss, yourself!
Kinsey was the kind of pretty that got under her skin. It was as if someone had put the girl next door and a vintage ...
Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.
Scripture does what psychoanalysis can't do-it pierces the heart, penetrates deep into the soul and judges the motives. To see yourself in the light of ...
The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor ...
I think fame became exciting for me in the late '90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could ...
Some people desire to be famous. I probably wouldn't be very good at it.
But underneath it there was not a sound, there was nothing that even whimpered or budged in our tunnel and it seemed Harry and me ...
We're instant ambassadors. Just add robot body and voila! If they'd told us anything real, they might have had to kill us.
You're in a strange mood,' said Damen. 'Stranger than usual.''I'd say I'm in a good mood.''A good mood.''Well, not as good a mood as Volo,' ...
Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims ...
Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.[Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]
Dead people are all on the same level.
It is said that he bagan to write in French because he was fascinated by two words from the French that did not have an ...
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
Stupidity was usually a lesser crime than vigilantism.
The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.
That's the Wildcat I remember.
When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something ...
The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, Are we being good ancestors?
Don't you start, Mercy Lynne. You know vegetablism is one step closer to a world without panties an' preachers. That there is a documentated fact.
I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.
I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And ...
EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to ...
You are poor, rude, immoral, unintelligent, impoverished, bitter, stubborn, and a blight upon your village and my kingdom.
I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let ...
Two boys, both in varsity football, kissing under the bleachers, muscular silhouettes merging against the deep purple sky. I wasn't the only one with a ...
I feel part of the environment, not separate from it, as though I'm at home rather than visiting - as though I'm tapped into some ...
Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth.
You snore worse. At least I don't turn into a lion in my sleep.""I only did it once.""Once was weird enough, thank you.
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have ...
Sheriff, are you suggestin' the victom was kidnapped?""I'm only statin' that, at this time, we have no body, only nonvital body parts ...
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He ...
FUCK UNITY! FUCK CONSENSUS! There was no unity or consensus during the American Revolution. We had principled leadership from a small, vocal, minority that refused ...
It was done with respect for both tradition and the full array of Nazi panoply. The mood was jovial at the May 1938 laying of ...
To tell about him, one should be French, because only the people of that nation manage to explain to others what they don't understand themselves.
But by doing impressions, you can broaden that scope," Valli told a National Public Radio interviewer much, much later. "There will be more possibilities when ...
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
There are a lot of fun vacation spots in the universe; the bug-pits of Aylorta Five are not one of them.
Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life.
I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.
I still can't believe," Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.
Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.[Lat., NoliBarbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a ...
As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always ...
Women usually tell that version of the truth which flatters them the most.
If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it ...
The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there ...
When I think of cancer prevention, I think of cancer vaccines, but I think more broadly of all that we can do to prevent cancer. ...
I like the idea that the sacred photo framing process is equally violatible and I think that's partly a carryover from the way I deal ...
Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot ...
What's amazing about Sarah [Brightman] is that she's sustained such a career. She just keeps going - she's like a machine. She tours and records ...
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.
If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for ...
When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as ...
The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, ...
We're sending you best wishesAnd hope your day goes wellAnd that you'll find some memoriesWith stories you can tellOf how you had a marvelous timeAnd ...
He knew enough of his subject to know that he did not know enough to write about it ...
Moral courage, to me, is much more demanding than physical courage.
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ...
It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something ...
In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR ... It does not mean ...
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in ...