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Dreams are all very well but are not known to pay the mortgage.
Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive, but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life ...
Laws and regulations are supposed to restrict the kind of surveillance governments do. In fact, the U.S. government is quite restricted in what kind of ...
The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.
I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing ...
The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is ...
Women always enter a relationship like they do an apartment. A few flowers here, a throw pillow there - the next thing you know, the ...
Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in ...
I told the cops I've been framed. I told them to just go look in the art gallery.
When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can ...
Bruises and dried blood covered her face, giving the illusion of chicken pox.
You begged me for clemency once," he called over the dead reaches of the Fold, over the hungry shrieks of the horrors he had made. ...
Sometimes being in control of everything comes with a lot of challenges.
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the ...
Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
In my community everyone seems to listen or have an interest in what I have to say, what I'm wearing, or what I'm doing. They ...
I have very distinct memories about growing up as part of what was then a very small Jewish community in Buffalo Grove, IL.
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
I can't imagine ever loving another woman the way that I love you.
The beauty of being an Author is, It's your story and you can write what ever you want.
He had figured out that thoughts exist in silence and have no colour or sound or shape until they are turned into words. Spoken words ...
Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even ...
If you know nothing about maintaining a [lawn] mower, Wal-Mart has helped make that ignorance irrelevant ... the lawn mowers at Wal-Mart are cheap enough ...
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the ...
People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People ...
HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call ...
Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.
If geography is prose, maps are iconography.
The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that ...
Tamani has generously agreed to donate his body to my research." The words were out of Laurel's mouth before she realized how bad they sounded. ...
That was the worst date I ever had. And we. Are so. Over.
If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
A higher speed on the wrong path is very is fatal! Don't be desperate about going ahead with the highest speed. First of all, be ...
It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.
The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.
I don't know about birdsnor do I know the history of fire.But I believe that my solitude should have wings
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
Nothing is solid. Nothing is fixed. These are images that time changes and that change time, just as the sun and the rain play on ...
Cimil's eyes lit. "The Niccolo DiConti? What an honor!" Niccolo stood a little taller then. "Yes, I seek your assistance." Cimil rolled her eyes. "Well, ...
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable ...
I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, ...
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing ...
I gabbed Ivy's arm. "Look. Ivy. Something just moved - by that tombstone." We both stared into the gray light. "Oh, noooo," I moaned. I ...
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines ... imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."
Opportunity is born with each new year.
The mind gives us thousands of ways to say no, but there's only one way to say yes, and that's from the heart.
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for ...
It's always been difficult for me to find funding for a story that I want to follow in real time. Financiers are hesitant to support ...
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.
A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn't want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman ...
At some stage in your life you need to stop fighting for others and look at who fights for you. Only then you will truly ...
Women tend not to be interested in work-a-holic divorcee. Either that or I have been walking around like a jam jar with the warning 'Reject ...
Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered by more people ...
But that was too harsh a phrase - could depend so ...
I've had some weird experiences.
Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.
My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or ...
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, ...
I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.
You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of ...
I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money ...
What was the definition of insanity? Repeating the same action and expecting different results?
Where love is, there God is also.
That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they're far wiser than ...
Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching ...
Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, ...
Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habitinvesting in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to ...
Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.
Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them ...
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows-the only food that any possible universe ever can grow-then we must ...
I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I ...
We weed out the darnel from the corn and the unfit in war, but do not excuse evil men from the service of the state.
Do you know the Ai'oan word for heart? he asks. I shake my head. "It's py'a." We're so close, his whisper is right in my ...
"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug ... booze is a drug ... many drugs ...
The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the ...
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. ...
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of ...
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to ...
Change your life experiences through the thoughts you think.Practice thinking good thoughts and your life will reflect what you are thinking.We have the blessing of ...
We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, ...
I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.
Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it ...
Genuine holiness is genuine Christlikeness, and genuine Christlikeness is genuine humanness - the only genuine humanness there is.
It's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life ... the ...
The content of worship comes from the Bible, the goal of worship is to give praise to God, and the basis for worship is the ...
30Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised. 31Honor her for all that her hands ...
She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her head.