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I think it's almost a unique control that artists can have now more than they ever did, I think if you don't be proactive about ...

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by ...

There's no way in the world that the United States does not want to spread democratic ideals, but the first thing we have to do ...

I think the first role I ever played was Mr. Bumble in a production of 'Oliver.'

These fans are there to support me, and I'm so appreciative of that.

Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about ...

Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the ...

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance ... cya later!

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping ...

God isn't here. God doesn't even know about this place

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we ...

[He] had the hard eyes of the disciplinarian and the smile of a man who must be tactful and pleasant to many people.

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

Stop looking for something when something has already found you. You have been living with your eyes closed. Awaken, it's there. Take it, it's yours.

I'd always dread this part of being a guest in the morning - the tentative yielding into the house's normal traffic. ...

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

IKeep writing.Not because I want to.It's a respiratory illness.

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them ...

My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap ...

In the muted silence I could feel my heart hammering against my chest, beating on my rib cage like it was trying to bust out ...

The essential difference between the various economic forms of society, between, for instance, a society based on slave-labour, and one based on wage-labour, lies only ...

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.

Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

IF YOU TRY TO RUN AWAY FROM ME AGAIN, I'LL FIND YOU EVEN IF YOU ARE IN HELL!" ~Larsson TIGER

We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people ...

All wisdom comes from God.

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

I had an unfortunate habit of allowing my anger to blind me. An extremely unfortunate habit. Glate knew that, and he knew how to stop ...

Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure ...

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

Jefferson said he only read the advertisements in the newspaper, because it was there he was most likely to find the truth.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their ...

I just don't have time to get old!

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our ...

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take ...

What is your view of the world?"My answer came easily."I see the earth as a classroom," I said. "We are all sent here to learn ...

Mantras are to be recited together. Mantras are an instrument to please the celestial deities.

Anyone who wants more out of life and is frustrated enough to do something about it can learn and apply what winners do.

I was down in Washington when 9/11 happened. We were in the middle of putting together the next summer season, and all I could think ...

I've certainly been very blessed. I can only say that I worked very hard in class and on set doing the best that I can ...

Everything about you fascinates me, Sophie. The smell of your skin. The sound of your voice. Your long legs. Your sense of humor. Your personality. ...

But what little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also ...

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a ...

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web ...

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many ...

Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.

Tell the people not to cry. Tell them to be happy.

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, ...

Many students go through "imposter syndrome" as they try to assimilate into a professional culture.

I'm trying to think, but nothing happens!

We have not chosen Him first - but He has chosen us.

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break ...

I still do not understand why some people think they mean nothing to anyone; while their simple smile gives unlimited reasons for others to live.

Ted, I swear to God, quothe he.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

Beyond the veil of suffering is a light that shines bright in every one of us. One does not need glasses to see that light, ...

I'm frequently asked why I don't write my memoirs. I think I have.

You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.

He relaxed his hands, lifted one and tucked a strand of wispy blonde hair behind her ear. She didn'tmove; she only looked at him. He ...

The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of ...

Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good ...

I live my life with love. I live my life with compassion. I live my life hoping the best for absolutely everyone, no matter how ...

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I started producing out of necessity. It's not that I want to become a full time producer, but it gives me control over my creative ...

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

I'll never forget my very first [SNL] show. I had a card in my changing room from Kristen Wiig. It just had a heart on ...

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.

Hollywood is something imagined ... acting is something crafted.

GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

We do not need more laws . No country suffers from a shortage of laws. We need a new model .

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.

Make your life an investment on earth, rather than to waste it or spend it.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

If your energy body is in full vibrancy, the physical body will naturally fix itself.

Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here

Marx inverted Hegel's dialectics and stood it right side up, on its feet.

Something is better than nothing

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works ...

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there ...

I've won. I hate politics. Especially in a room full of alphas.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some ...