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I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.
Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.
If the yacht's sails were wind-tattered, if its polished brass and varnished wood were scarred from a hundred successful voyages, it would have suited him, ...
Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
I could watch you eat that all day.
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know ...
People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?'
Take time to play! Ask for what you want. Laugh. Live loudly. Be avid. Learn a new thing. Be Yourself!
Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.
I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.
We must do right and risk the consequences.
I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.
I await the revises, and promise you not to 'make my quietus with a bare bodkin' till I have returned them. After that, I think ...
We knew that, in doing something that's based around the world of the movie and how popular that is, we really wanted to do the ...
It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
To be a leader meant that sometimes you had to look away from the pain
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned ...
The fundamental goal of Republicans and Democrats is to get themselves re-elected.
My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up ...
I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in ...
Both parents passed away of the Gnats on their farm out in the wilds, sir, and he was raised by peas.' 'Surely you mean on ...
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not ...
Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.
The young break rules for fun. The old for profit.
Some murders are well worth their prison term.
I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity.
You're lucky enough in television to always be at it, to always be doing it. It's like you're constantly that person, always, all the time. ...
I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.
You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.
Doctors' investment in radium ... the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims ...
If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.
Always, Always have a plan
I know two kinds of Christians, those that love and those that love to be right.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
The interior of the station wagon smelled of human hair.
Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.
It takes a decade to grow a tree, and it takes more than one generation to shape the right mindset.
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a ...
...hate always hurts the hater more than it does the hated.
The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and ...
Some people reach the age of sixty before others.
If you have fun at your job, I think you're going to be more effective.
Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I'm bound to break many more.
The truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost.
When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the ...
If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
If you're gay how come you don't dress better?". . ."I'm undercover," he answered. "Obviously. I'm reporting back tonight on how best to attack the ...
The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be ...
Maya wrapped one leg around him, writhing against him as she threaded her fingers through his hair and held him to her, urging him on."Never ...
The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of ...
The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your ...
This is slow work. . . .Is it not time for my pain-killer?
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I ...
In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people of a nearby ...
It seemed like he'd gone out of his way to hurt me, driving a knife into my heart and then twisting it so that there ...
After karting in Venezuela, I came to Europe in 1998 to compete in international kart races, which was great for me to get experience racing ...
I was wrong about you, Izabel," I whisper near her ear; the pain engulfing my insides. "I am the ticking time bomb. I am more ...
Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is ...
I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that,
First and foremost is that creativity is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than from the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses. This
I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
Don't go for knockout in one punch, if your desire is to stay longer in the fight and thrive; go for outlasting them. Take the ...
I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's ...
If there's one thing I love, its people who wear their failures on their sleeve. And go on to teach the unspoken/spoken gospel of what ...
Give Yarvi the knife since he has just one hand to hold it. One hand, perhaps, but the blood of kings in his veins!""It's keeping ...
He smiled sadly, then placed his hand around mine so we were holding the book together. "I believe that - with everything I have," he ...
He left without a smile, but he placed something in my chest, a hollow thing that left no room for the hope and happiness that ...
The world is full of people who care but never quite care enough.
Vampires are very sexy right now. It's kind of disgusting. It's kind of a bandwagon.
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
Religion looms as large as an elephant in the United States, to the point that being nonreligious is about the biggest handicap a politician running ...
It was full of dead Prussian Guards, big men, and dead Royal Welch Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers, little men. Not a single tree in ...
Camels are far too intelligent to admit to being intelligent.
'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on ...
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in ...
I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to ...
I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of ...
Power wears out those who don't have it.
Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.
Even though the odds are in my favor, doesn't mean they'll end up that way. First rule of cards. And of life.
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the ...
A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.
Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?
Be mindful of the very moment you are living. Start exactly this second. You don't wait until the children get out of the house or ...
A truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.
Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?
Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.
The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves, and in Khaemwaset's ...
Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.
When you're engaged in what you love to do, it's like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to ...