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You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
Later, we'll look up what was recorded in our history about yours in faraway lands.Then we'll ask ourselves, Was Andalusia here or there? On earth, ...
I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.
People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here.
Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy ... ...
You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
That's why I think it hurt us, whereas these other bands [I'm assuming he means the other Big 3 -Slayer, Megadeth, Metallica] they kept doing ...
A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much ...
My big move was to get out of my underpants without snagging my foot and falling on my face.
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a ...
Just 'cause she's farting through silk doesn't mean she can shit on people who don't have any money.
Grown up? Me? I suppose I have. Killing things, and almost killing myself, must have changed me some, after all.
She's only been here a year and she's already as rich as Croesus.
My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace. They can be spun, stretched and shaped with a surprising degree of freedom. This ...
As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. ...
Sometimes writing is like talking to a stranger who's exactly like yourself in every possible way, only to realize that this stranger is as boring ...
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.
Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.
Julian Singh, he said, extending his hand. No one (a) introduces himself and then (b) extends his hand to be shaken while (c) wearing shorts ...
My favorite books are the ones I've never finished reading. Many of them I hated the first time
He glanced at Ty, his body warming all over. Ty had asked him to marry him. He'd been entirely sincere, too, in the way only ...
I love playing confused, broken characters.
Well suited to those with large shoulders and feet like spades, swimming enjoyed a boost in popularity in Victorian times when, due to advancements in ...
One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take ...
If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I ...
He gave me a feral grin. "Like what you see, dove?" "Nope." I hadn't had sex in eighteen months. Pardon me while I struggle with ...
Freedom isn't the highest good. Power is. For without power, your freedom can be taken.
He looked at me like Lillian Gish coming out of a swoon."Is this Bertie Wooster talking?" he said, pained."Yes, it jolly well is!""Bertie, old man," ...
It was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad.i heard that. father said, not looking ...
For to give is the business of the rich.[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
It was impossible to say where one gesture ended and the next began.
He nearly tripped and fell down the last few steps, his legs not used to an end to the descent, a flat piece of ground ...
So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured ...
When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.
If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down and kill themselves. ...
In 1918, a Chinese immigrant working in a Los Angeles noodle factory invented the fortune cookie. He did so believing that a cookie with a ...
She shrugged. "He sat back, called it good, and rested."I waited.She waited.I raised my brows. "And?"Her mouth curved into a smile. "You think I'm pretty, ...
Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It's the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and ...
When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you ...
No one is allowed to be born without a purpose, no one.
Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
I think some of the most creative work is coming out of television. I felt it's very immediate and I like that. It's really fast. ...
What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will ...
The world would be a better place for man, if man were not in it.
When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors ...
I don't know what it means to be a star because I don't really look at myself like a star. I look at myself as ...
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history ...
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up ...
Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe ...
It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name.
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
Even a flower can feel the touch of kindness.
He caught her eye. 'And? I'm jealous-minded and I sleep with too many women.'Fire's smile grew. 'Luckily for you, I loved you long before either ...
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it ...
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own ...
Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.
The pores, the wrinkles, the nose hairs, the impossibly whitened teeth shoved right up in front of your eyes so you can't ignore them the ...
Be fully present for five minutes every day.
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
Women are like alcohol. They smell great, they taste delicious, and right or wrong, they kill you slowly, one way or another.
Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.
I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't ...
Being defenseless didn't preclude attack.
Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.
We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.
I pay attention to every system of conventions and expectations, above all literary conventions and the expectations they generate in readers. But that law-abiding side ...
People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy because it's true. As I've gotten older and grown ...
We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call ...
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.
Britain is obsessed with political correctness.
A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror.
Does he look at you, the way I look at him?
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans ...
He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in the water to ...
Miracle focus gospel is creating an illusion in peoples head
Coaching is effective self-expression in the coach/client relationship so that you catalyze your clients' manifestation of their own desired outcomes.
This is madness, Catelyn thought. Real enemies on every side and half the realm in flames, and Renly sits here playing at war like a ...
And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been ...
So in a nutshell," he says, "something snapped. That's what people say, isn't it? But to be honest, now I hear myself saying it, I ...
Before there was any chance to go to England, I changed schools, and it was rugby from there on in.
We see men and women who work as hard as they possibly can and still fall behind a little more every month. We see lives ...
Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones ...
I don't really know if I would consider myself anything in particular. I would say I'm inspired in a Hasidic way, but I certainly don't ...
Like any author worth a shit - she parted with a piece of her soul.
Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower? Of course not. Don't be silly. Even if I didn't use it in the house?
We [US government] have no fundamental disagreement with the Saudis - I mean, excuse me, with the Iraqis any more than we do with the ...
It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time.
These were the facts. Facts were important. They separated fiction from reality, the tawdry world of Mike Longshott from the concrete spaces of Joe's world.
His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine ...
We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really ...
It is easy to kill. It is equally easy to destroy glass windows. Any fool can do either. Why is it only the wise who ...
Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my ...
He leaned close to whisper in her ear, Is there any other tension I can relieve for you, cher? I am willing and most certainly ...
It's time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.