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And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. ...

In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.

Healthy living is a learnable skill.

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

People are so codified - it's sad.

You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they ...

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy love which creates life?

Any man can help make a child, but it takes a special man to help raise a child. He must be selfless. He must be ...

His computer password is "password.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds ...

Damianos," Touars said. "Princekiller."It was the last thing he said. Damenpulled the sword out. He took a stepback.

Moping around with sadness and sorrow ... what will come of it? Even dead people can do that. However, i'll live and stand on my ...

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

There is nothing I would not do for you. I would let you walk on my naked body with those wicked heels I would trail ...

Either way, consider me your sword, Vhalla Yarl.""Then consider me your wind.

Even in the off season, people are streaming the show or buying the DVD sets, and new audience comes to 'Leverage' every year we've been ...

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.

What teachings of Scripture do you still mainly follow out of dutiful habit, not with an eye toward honoring God or being used as a ...

We had extremely democratic town councils in medieval Italy which knew the value of working together, and every now and then, down the centuries, this ...

Which is why perhaps it is good news that in February 1999 the International Astronomical Union ruled officially that Pluto is a planet. The universe ...

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Invariably the superior in right of her sex, and

Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, andthen goes on to the beginning, and concludes with themiddle ...

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

Chopped down the tree of peace, but it will grow again.

Why?" I say, so quietly that it comes out sounding like a tiny, tired sigh. "Nobody wants to be mediocre." Her shadow on the ceiling ...

It was a weird thing for me, because I don't read vampire books. I don't watch vampire movies. I'm not into the horror genre. I'm ...

I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers ...

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, ...

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just ...

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

If a few students come reluctantly to their studies, then let them go. If all students come reluctantly to their studies, then let your scribe ...

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

Music was something I found on my own. I got my first guitar when I was around 10, and it just all developed over time.

You know I want you. You know that I'd give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away ...

I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.

Our love is not effortless. We've clawed our way through the brush and fire to get here today. But aren't the things we bleed for ...

Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any ...

Paul was focusing on what was happening in him, not to him. Likewise, we can be sure that when something is happening to us, God ...

I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey ...

If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and therefore makes Himself vulnerable, he ...

Much had been lost during the centuries, for men seldom bother to preserve the commonplace articles of everyday life.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

One must submit, like a traveller who has to ascend a mountain: if the mountain was not there, the road would be both shorter and ...

You sweet ... beautiful ... lunatic, he heard himself mutter.

All I care about these days is painting - photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing. ...

One thing you can't do with babies, you can't give them steak.

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get ...

- I hate to break this to you, Cameron, but you are only human.- Shh ... I've been trying to keep that under wraps for ...

When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. ...

But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth ...

Walking calendar of crime,

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it ...

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Nothing is higher than heaven; nothing is beyond the walls of the world; nothing is lower than hell, or more glorious than virtue.48

Julia Roberts most definitely would play me in the film of my life. Not just because of the hair but because she has all sides ...

Sitting here, beneath this majestic oak tree under the hot afternoon sun in the middle of nowhere, the concept of time, present, and future, were ...

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as ...

If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.

I wrote about ... my childhood, when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and god was a rabbit.

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games ... different games. You have to work very hard ...

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates ...

It is bigotry for public schools to teach only one theory of origins.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.

Shaft was standing next to a newstsand about thirty yards from the Con Ed crew when Kelly came out of the red-brick highrise, the glossy ...

People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don't. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit ...

For better to come, good must stand aside.

The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or ...

The door opened. 'Come in Vasya,' Morozko said. 'It is cold.

I love a confident guy and a guy that makes me laugh and who is a little hard to get. Don't be too easy.

We are all a bunch of human-shaped wounds on each other's hearts. And that is why art exists.

It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want ...

[...] she was one of those hostesses who look upon it as a mark of hospitality to make their guests eat however unwilling they may ...

I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down ...

Sadly, we have confused biblical literature with history, and turned prophecy into biography.

Her grief is still too young to behave itself, so she never lets it out.

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that ...

Science is the most effective, efficient and magnificent path that leads towards the salvation of humankind.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

Love is ... what I gave you, Noona. That is love. After you lost it, you realized how precious it was. You're regretting it to ...

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they ...

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately, what keeps children ...

Beer is a wholesome liquor ... it abounds with nourishment

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you.

God's purpose at the cross was as real as was the guilt of the crucifiers.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and ...

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.