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One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.

An eye for an eye is never enough. Never, never, never.

Tortoises are not well equipped for cross-country navigation. They need longer legs or shallower ditches.

I love you, Essie. Before you came into my life, I had considered ending myself. Three hundred years is a long time to be alone. ...

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect ...

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly with reflected lights ...

Striking the match my heart beats faster, I was always your favorite beautiful disaster Y ...

The Church is not an association that wishes to promote a certain cause. It is not about a cause. It is about the person of ...

The first to express support of Tang San was unexpectedly Ma Hongjun. Fatty's hands supported Huang Yuan and Jing Ling,"Third brother, I support you, mercy ...

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building ...

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on ...

They would just trade one type of shackles for another, trade physical ones that wrapped around wrists and ankles for the invisible ones that wrapped ...

About to make, but the idea had faded. Not for the first time that day, she wished the hall outside her door hadn't become the ...

It's hot,' [Mulder] said, dropping on the bench beside [Scully].'It's July, Mulder,' Garson reminded him. 'It's New Mexico. What did you expect?''Heat I can get ...

I leaned in closer, like a fool, like someone who had not had months of survival training or ever studied biology. Someone tricked into thinking ...

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read.

I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple ... in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that ... yeah, they totally were.

I've been treating you with courtesy and respect because that's the way I choose to treat everyone. But never, ever mistake kindness with weakness.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

Well, that would be a title [the busiest guy in Hollywood] still reserved for Ryan Seacrest. I have one assistant; he has about nine. I ...

She had never felt such excitement, such awareness of life around her, as if the very air was charged with his presence.

You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First ...

New ideas are delicate. They can be crushed easily. New ideas can be killed by a sneer or a yawn...or even a frown.

When you're used to playing with people, when you're in a band, then you're used to playing with each other. People nowadays aren't used to ...

To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly; we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the ...

Infinity making its way into our battered little sphere of finity.

It was awful, this love.

I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.

I didn't miss the putt. I made the putt. The ball missed the hole.

Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as ...

Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of ...

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and ...

I tried to remember the good memories but I couldn't. It's like having a mountain of sugar but there were mites on that mountain. You ...

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any ...

That present she left in the bathroom was special. It's not a funk, it's a biological weapon. The Pentagon should be taking notes.

If you see a bird "feeding" on a cattail spike, observe closely: Is it delving for caterpillars or their cocoons? Or is it depositing or ...

No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day ...

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and ...

It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop ...

I am the best bodyguard, because I'll take a bullet, I'll take a stab wound, I'll take a hit upside the head; I'm like a ...

Just as thoughts, send out vibrations to which there is a creative and attractive power, gratitude stimulates the field of etheric energy that surrounds you ...

That's my Heaven. And my Hell.

Kick your shoes off, kickem off

We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying ...

Easy street is a blind alley.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to ...

As a guide and protection. Trust your divinity, trust your brain,

Well, I'II tell ya, it makes no difference if you came from the city. And it don't matter if you came from the country. And ...

Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

Some people are so positive, that when they slip in dog poop, they pirouette

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

If you count your blessings, you will know, they outnumber your troubles.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

When an opportunity comes your way, it's about making sure you're prepared to be the one who can walk through the door and deliver the ...

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I ...

This is the first time I've really looked at my reflection in months." To the Lykae [Bowen], she said, "No wonder you love me. Could ...

I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

...then I wonder, does anyone ever intend on being that kind of person?

I congratulate Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on her victory. But, I think, for us, that is about as bad as it's going to get.

You need boundaries ... even in our material creations, boundaries mark the most beautiful of places, between the ocean and the shore, between the mountains ...

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. And also ...

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.

Sexually? Your late 40s and 50s? The bomb!

And why is Grant so solemn today upon our great achievement, except he knows this unmeaning inhuman planet will need our warring imprint to give ...

I sat near a window in our little synagogue and looked out at the large church and wondered how a statue whose face was so ...

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

I happen to be one of those rare actors that actually loves very intelligent and well-acted science fiction.

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests ...

I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. ...

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

She's stupid, isn't she, Emily?

You can't let the highs get too high and you can't let the lows get too low.

Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want ...

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Get kidnapped once, and you're branded for life." "You came home married, crowned, with a DayGlo prehistoric cat and two Unseelie guardians.

If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Inside, I'm assaulted by the evening propaganda broadcasts coming over the apartment's hardwired loudspeaker. There's one in every apartment and factory floor in Pyongyang

It not about the way the person looks it about the Love you have for them.

I know how it works, Esther. I graduated from Harvard." "Book-smart, but life-stupid," said Esther.

There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

His tongue tapped his top lip as he cupped her breast in his hand. "Tis boidhche --beautiful.

Amanda had way too much time to think being at the hospital without any friends. She didn't want to dwell on her thoughts for too ...

I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, ...

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being ...

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once ...

Until al Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Hizballah had killed more Americans than had any terrorist group in history.

I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future.

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

There was a whole newfound confidence that came over me after having my son.