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But she was her own champion now.
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in ...
You were my single greatest adventure.
I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a ...
A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.
People think writers are always feeling inspired. That's only about 5% of it. 95% is the daily discipline to just sit and write.
Be curious, confident and courageous.
At last he said, very softly, "It's big, isn't it?" "It is," I said. "And Al . . . man . . . I'm just ...
The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they ...
Pg 12"The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I ...
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some ...
L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. ...
Wine makes us proud of our past," said one official. "It gives us courage and hope." How else to explain why vignerons in Champagne rushed ...
So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the ...
In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.
Put it this way: singing is not my day job.
You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A ...
None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.
The next decade cannot be a decade of confrontation and contention. It cannot be east vs. West. It cannot be men vs. women. It cannot ...
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact ...
Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.
It is as foolish to try to preserve obsolescent industries as to try to preserve obsolescent methods of production: this is often, in fact, merely ...
Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive
At this distanceyou're a mirage, a glossy imagefixed in the postureof the last time I saw you.Turn you over, there's a placefor the address. Wish ...
The drama is the book of the people.
Well, that's the important thing, isn't it, Mma? To feel happiness, and then to remember it.
I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I ...
How silent are the winds!
She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power."I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just ...
On long haul flights I always drink loads and loads of water and eat light and healthy food.
To deny the force of divine judgment, then, is to make God less than God, and to make us less than His children. For every ...
That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked ...
If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu ...
In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural ...
Women were hurt every day and kept the cause to themselves.
A man of broad principles. Of liberal sentiments. Even a generous man ... Yet one might say that his way through the world was so ...
The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verification ... we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which ...
The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.
The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; ...
There are no secrets.It's just we thought that they said dead. When they said bread.
I quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff ...
Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service.
Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking ...
The media, like the politicians, do not take note of rebellion until it is too large to be ignored.
Shard by shard we are released from the tyranny of so-called time. A curtain of purple wisteria partially conceals the entrance to a familiar garden ...
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.
I wasn't a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers.
You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
Dreamer in Exile.
I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning ...
I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.
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He loved to meditate on a land laid waste, Britain deserted by the legions, the rare pavements riven by frost, Celtic magic still brooding on ...
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.
Will Turner: That's not true. I am not obsessed with treasure.Jack Sparrow: Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
But I can be your friend in the meantime. We can even exchange friendship bracelets if you want, like the Amity girls used to.
As a father, we need to actively listen.
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments-but if the ...
How interesting that a man didn't always admire his own traits in another. The
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.
There's always little things that you can find to incorporate, I think, from your life, whether it be the exact circumstance or something similar that ...
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
There Are No Believers in This World:There Are Only the Make Believers and the Non-Believers.
The somatic marker hypothesis (Damasio, 1994) provides neurobiological support for the notion that people make judgments not only by evaluating the consequences and their probability ...
Quit getting bent out of shape about changes to the privacy policy of this free service you voluntarily use. Judging by the last few photos ...
The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the ...
In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately ...
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
I move impatientlytowards a loverI haven't met
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
Music was known and understood before words were spoken.
I knew that this job would be too much for me.
Life in Beverly Hills is a game, and I make the rules.
What made you immortal? (Nick)Really good DNA. (Acheron)
I'm Raine Benares, seeker and ... " I looked up at Vegard."What else are people calling me now?"The big Guardian chuckled and shook his head. ...
What others are doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth.
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' ...
I am AFRAID OF TALKING WITH PEOPLE... MAINLY BECAUSE WORDS LOSE WEIGHT... MAINLY BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T PUT VALUE ON THEM.
A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.
In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in our relationships with ...
People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.
History is biology's dumping ground
The starting point for the new history, both in Europe and America, has been the record of births, marriages, and deaths, which most literate societies ...
In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our ...
Of course I could drive. Idiots and lunatics drove cars. Why not the brilliant Marguerite Johnson?
On a task usually also want the authority
You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks ...
We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.
I washed his tiny limp resting body; it was then that I finally released the cry, that for so long, had remained stifled.
Love is most nearly itselfWhen here and now cease to matter.
Vergleichende Anatomie der Engel.On the comparative anatomy of angels.