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As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I ...

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some ...

I got up the nerve to ask her if she remembered that first visit and my terrible faux pas. She pretended, in true Japanese fashion, ...

A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

I have paid as much as $300 a night to throw up into a sink shaped like a seashell.

Protest poetry could there be consensus poetry?

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

They say that a near death experience makes a person see a flash of their past, but that hasn't happened to me at all.

Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook ...

It says, loving doesn't change just because someone isn't there, or because time gets in the way, or even death. It's always with you, keeping ...

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.

As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always ...

Life is short, there and then gone. Don't waste it waiting for a solution that might not even exist.

The point is that by exercising your capacity for forethought and planning, you strengthen your prefrontal cortex and its connection to the ventral striatum.

Our ego is our silent partner ... too often with a controlling interest.

It is the first time I haven't fought the feeling, haven't tried to control it with closed eyes or a redirection of my mind. Instead ...

Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.

We have to make a disciplined effort to find out what our governments are doing in these various parts of the world and what is ...

The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.

In the circle of yellow lamplight,These few roof-beams and columnsOf what could be a Mogul Emperor's palace.The Prince chews his long nails,The Princess lowers her ...

Kat looked at Hale. "I've never heard Marcus talk this much.""Yeah," Hale whispered. "I'm trying to decide if I like it." Just then, Marcus took ...

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you ...

Nothing stands still, except in our memory.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

A charming eccentric, a piece of blank paper on which the electorate could write its message: You other guys are so wasted that we decided ...

When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.

No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the ...

The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.

Yes, I do. The ones who aren't growing and evolving, who are standing still. They're the ones who rarely got better.' 'Yes, that was it,' ...

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

See, Red? When life hands you lemons, you know what you gotta do now.""Yes, Mr. Cliche. I know what I have to do. I make ...

Self-sacrifice is something other people always have to pay for.

People never looked up.

Hope for forces which you do not yet have.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

Using information about animal behavior to justify social or political ideology is wrong . . . People need to be able to make decisions about ...

You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come ...

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

My face grew hot. "We were discussing the investigation," I told him quickly. "He was here a quarter of an hour at the most."Father smiled ...

Do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it

I don't trust what this life has given me.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent ...

Who was Vardan Mamikonian, and how did he come to play this most crucial role in Armenian history? It may justifiably be said that without ...

Start where you are right at this very moment, capture everything you are thankful for, and then carry on with that feeling inside. You will ...

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Success demands consistent effort and hard work.

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. ...

It was his habit, when he rewrote anything, to shed himself of all earlier versions. He kept a clean house.

As the world grows faster and more interdependent, we need to figure out ways to scale the fluidity of teams across entire organizations: groups with ...

I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, ...

Facts are lonely things

Don't look for the devil outside, look inside and exorcise yourself

I like to see the glass as half full, hopefully of jack daniels.

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! ...

Everything comes to him who waits if he waits till it comes.

We're particularly anxious to get our hands on Pioneer 10 - the first man-made object to escape from the Solar System.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but ...

For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.

I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country ...

...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood ...

Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

That's how we do it in the black ...

It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow ...

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' ...

Jeeves.""Sir?""Are you busy just now?""No, sir.""I mean, not doing anything in particular?""No, sir. It is my practice at this hour to read some improving book; ...

The most important thing ... is not clicking the shutter ... it is clicking with the subject.

Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

Secret is the mother of all lies.

I m only happy when it rains

Hux?" she had asked shakily. "What are you doing?" "You said you wanted me," Huxley whispered in her ear, and it had sent shivers down ...

War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant ...

But a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were ...

Pentecost is a celebration of God ... a celebration of God's power ... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within ...

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust - and those elements are universally accessible. Which does ...

While there will always be someone who may dislike you, there are others who will like you for who you are.

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.

We are not an assimilative, homogeneous society, but a facilitative, pluralistic one, in which we must be willing to abide someone else's unfamiliar or even ...

I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because ...

I spend money on convenient, comfortable and luxurious things; I spend money on books too.

Decisions are made by men. Men are fallible; at their best their works do not last long. Even the best decision has a high probability ...

I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?

As a child, I certainly had a fascination with monsters and vampires.

Courage is the ability to do the right thing, all the time, no matter how painful or uncomfortable it might be.

I hand him the single greatest work of fiction known to man: my resume.

When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher' ... Not that he would.