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Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.
I would rather trust a person than a crowd.
Why give give up?Why give in?
I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too ...
But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole.
The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the ...
I just don't see anonymous sources as fair against a candidate. I think if someone has a real concern, they should come out and say ...
And when they start talking, and they always do, you find that each of them has a story they want to tell. Everyone, no matter ...
A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness
Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, ...
But that sacred hunger we spoke of justifies all.
I make movies. I'm not in politics.
We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It ...
In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will ...
Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain.
Writing is an antisocial act.
In the space beyond was Hedra Ka. A cracking scab of a planet, choked with storms and veins of lava. A mist of rocks floated ...
I like retirement.
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people ...
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment ...
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
I am a little world made cunningly.
Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious ... they are the dictator inside ourselves.
I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy.
Technical achievement without vision is only craft.
The two best experiences are the heady days when the boat is bought - and the day it's sold. Everything between is expenditure. ...
Who runs the world? Girls.
No one takes whats mine. fate has gifted me this female. Destiny does not allow exchanges
There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There ...
Their recommendation is that you should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now ...
They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the ...
Sheesh, I'm surprised you've survived out here this long. Tell me, are you normal for a warrior or are you like a special day-release case ...
Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, ...
But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so ...
I don't develop; I am.
You needn't trouble yourself. He's only a librarian.
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most ...
God made thee perfect, not immutable.
If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.
There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.
Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your ...
Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as ...
I want to learn your trickery and feel what it's like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because ...
An' when they git ready ... I say, when they git ... ever hear tell of a shoggoth? 'Hey, d'ye hear me? I tell ye ...
You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!
We have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong.
The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values - something whose like has never been seen on earth
So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.
But this one was a writer, not a reader.
We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at ...
The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... ...
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to ...
In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
Set a goal, measure it, change if you need to, keep going after the goal,
The soul wants a body so it can kick up its heels. The soul wants a wide, wide skirt to wear while it swings and ...
The best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.
What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie.'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes.'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping ...
You are very precious, each of you, regardless of your circumstances. You occupy a high and sacred place in the eternal plan of God, our ...
The lesson here is clear: If you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise ...
Exacerbate, v.I believe your exact words were: You're getting too emotional.
The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share. No, but to be admired by Posterity -- people ...
What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's ...
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I ...
As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life ...
I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something.
A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.
People want stardom or fame or whatever - instant gratification as opposed to learning one's craft, which, when I was starting out, was the most ...
I feel lucky to receive such critical attention and praise when you're in a show that's going to last a month, it's just easier when ...
All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)
Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested ...
Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rhythm; the feeling of the rain on your ...
Senses are the meansLife lies in the meansLife has no connotations
A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as ...
Obsessions turn people off.
Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.
He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.
Destiny knows no compromise, only consequences.
Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it ...
I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, ...
As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.
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 ...
Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have ...
But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration ...
The first part of saving your life is coming to understand how you endangered it by loving wrongly, and living under the rule of your ...
It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me ...
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was ...
I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
Love is stronger than violence.
If you want to shine over the world, first let the wisdom shines over you!
There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a ...
We have the ability to manifest our thoughts: to actually say something and express what our feelings are. That, then, transforms the world and puts ...