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No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they can't deal with so they take ...

Seeing clearly means that you're smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for ...

If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If ...

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

Wrestlers need a lesson in submission, and I'm just the one to teach them.

People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the ...

God made the human body like a machine with built-in obsolescence.

If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach ...

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. ...

It'll probably be brutal, too. They might even feed you to the dog. He doesn't have a dog. Yeah, well, he might get one just ...

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, ...

No one can ever foresee the future Sonya. You can only judge what's up ahead based on the conditions of the present. Remember that.

I just went to the hobby shop and got an electricity kit and a chemistry kit, and I'm really excited to do experiments like squeezing ...

All you can be is you. Your true self shines with more beauty than your mind can ever know.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

I grew up in this little farm town, and I've always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in ...

Well damn, I guess I've had a few threesomes and foursomes too. However, I don't really think that having Ben and Jerry ice cream and ...

Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.

I lived in a project and ... didn't have a good education. But ... I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show ...

Lay these Bones in an unworthy Urn,Tombless, with no Remembrance over them.

If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to ...

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with ...

My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out.

I like paper statements rather than relying on computers. I feel more in control if my account details and transactions are broken down on paper.

You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This ...

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, ...

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once ...

Did you enjoy yourself?' I asked.'Mmm,' he said. 'It was fun, wasn't it?' He wasn't using a knife, but held a fork in his right ...

One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis ...

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

Ha! I knew you were into him! Oh my God! Hold my juice - I think I need to break out in a happy dance! ...

Boys always make things more complicated.

The rivalry between the Lakers and Celtics endured for about eight years, and the interest grew each year.

I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes ...

I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct ...

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what ...

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't ...

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious ...

If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

And he smiled when he saw me, as if just the sight of me had improved his day.

Where am I going?- this is the question of your birth purpose on the earth

It comes to me every day of my life that a home spirit is being awakened amongst us, that as a nation we are beginning ...

The only set thing I do is that I really, really memorize the lines. I've gotta be so comfortable with the words.

I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. ...

Do you think it's better to fail at something worthwhile, or to succeed at something meaningless?

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to ...

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

He leans into my ear. Lowers his voice. "Ignite, my love. Ignite.

I know I can seem ... distant sometimes. I know I'm always in my head and sometimes I'm just a little too quiet. But you're ...

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. ...

Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness, but I ...

Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some ...

My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.

Light is colder when there are parts of it missing.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something ...

When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's ...

Had I ever been so terrified? Perhaps when Typhon raged across the earth, scattering the gods before him. Perhaps when Gaea unleashed her giants to ...

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you.""More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, ...

People are dupes, and wicked too. That is what makes it interesting to get them better.

Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward ...

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

'The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is ...

In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University accepted me after ...

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.

A damp, gray sky covered southern Ohio like the skin of a corpse.

Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought ...

I love you all very; very much and I shall never, ever forget you, I promise.

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

Beauty is vain. It appears and, like the wind, it's gone. Remember that.

Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255

What do you think of Adolf Hitler?" Einstein replied, "He is living on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, he ...

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

The girl worked the clutch and the gas and the brake expertly with her right foot, just as her father had taught her.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Choose your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.

Smack me if we ever get that awful.""But I smack you so often," she said, "how will you know that's what I'm smacking you for?""We ...

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

No real adventure ever started by waiting patiently by a doorstep.

At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ...

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - ROBERT FROST,

There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's ...

I try to produce whatever I like, it doesn't really matter what it is. It could be Progressive, it could be deeper, it doesn't matter ...

I need you. I need you safe and well and whole. I need you to be okay, because that's the only thing that will keep ...

My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever ...

Your everyday talk teaches your functional understanding of the gospel to your children. Does your everyday talk center upon grace or performance?

He's always been something like a star to me

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes ...

All art is subversive.