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Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.

I want to tell them all; the world is bigger than high school.

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house ...

Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.

Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light ...

If there is no action, you haven't really decided.

Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a car that will ...

As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having ...

Hungary shares more than it may like to admit with its former Warsaw Pact allies Romania and Bulgaria. Fischer explained that despite its economic progress, ...

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.

People with purpose don't let obstacles get in their way.

It takes one to tell, and two to missunderstand.

Out beyondthe ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass,the world is too full ...

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there ...

We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that ...

Remember to add the most important ingredient to every recipe you make - your love!

Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of ...

The war between the Iranians and Iraqis is a touchy issue. To be quite honest, they each other's guts. It was not responsible to let ...

I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to ...

The sight of a rose is pleasant when there is a rose by its side.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and- and ...

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable ...

I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy ...

Their only chance to mix with royalty was while they played Bezique. They never played any other game but this one that had grown out ...

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

That's pretty bold of you, Jill Cleary." His eyes sparkled when he teased. "We've only known each other a few hours, and you're already talking ...

I grew up in the 80s in England: we'd wake up each morning and look out the window to see if the government had finally ...

Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only ...

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

The past does not define, you the present does.

What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?

The thing I get a lot is, 'You've got a very recognisable face.' I'm never quite sure what to make of it.

The next time something happens to your car, make a note as to what you feel the broken part represents and see if you can ...

I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

You rise at dawn in May you can savour the world before the pandemonium din of the Industrial Revolution and 24/7 shopping.

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends.

I never expected there to be so much death in my life.' I. C. Williams.

In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus ...

In my heart is rooted in lovelessness and thanklessness ... By contrast, every truly holy act, including even the inner desire to be holy, springs ...

There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid.

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

Unlike those who fight truly intolerant things like terrorism throughout the world, Madonna is really the lone brave voice in the wilderness standing up against ...

Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.

We are defined by our enemies - but also we can choose them. Make an enemy of hatred, Jorg. Do that and you could be ...

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

If the two women feared that the coming of this date [their retirement] might give some clue to their ages, it was not an occasion ...

I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells ...

When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.

I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It's like a hobby. I'm like a praying mantis.

I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And ...

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I ...

I just received the message she left earlier today. She left the message yesterday, but she left today. Now I feel like leftovers, but I ...

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.

Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.

Can I say hello?Why?I don't want you to be alone!

Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. ...

Rhage cleared his throat. My lord and ruler, Wrath, son of Wrath, blooded father of Wrath, I present you with Throe, Piece of Shit.

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders.

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking ...

I am not worried that the Egyptians will suddenly invade Ethiopia. Nobody who has tried that has lived to tell the story.

Braque was used to this kind of crap; her mom had been a master choreographer of anxious micromanagement since Braque could remember.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.

You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's ...

Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and ...

I have always wanted to do daytime television, but past handlers and agents had steered me away from it because they would say to me, ...

I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.

DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked ...

I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad ...

The OGP is something that has brought the world community together.

A natural hierarchy is simply an order of increasing wholeness, such as: particles to atoms to cells to organisms, or letters to words to sentences ...

Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, ...

Well, I'm guessing hat in about two centuries or so, humans will discover zero space and make transponders. Whatever they are. But in the meantime, ...

Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

One of the things I learned firsthand as a child, growing up in Zacatecas, Mexico was ... that when you fight with a pig, you ...

Growing old was mandatory but growing up was optional.

Freedom is a responsibility to be earned, not a license for recklessness and anarchy. If someday, despite our strongest efforts and our deepest determination, we ...

The days you work are the best days.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often ...

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.

Learn was the difference between having a dream and cultivating the courage to live it out day after day." Mable

Happiness is wanting what you have.

The religion of Christ is not a tidbit after One's bread; on the contrary, it is the bread or it is nothing. People should at ...

Some people call it the world of dreams, but it is as real as anythingelse ... ' Jenny

In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or ...

There is something to be said for waking up every morning and seeing the sun.

NO error is infused into the young mind, to lie there dormant, or to be reproduced only when the subject of thought or action recurs ...