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Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.
A sense of duty imprisons you.
I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor, are expected to ...
Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder ...
Ah, 'Pather Panchali' was the most inspiring film that I wrote music for, and it was so spontaneously done. I saw the film, composed on ...
In the big scheme of things, a little love is all we need
You cannot control anyone but yourself in this life, and that means you ultimately have the choice in whether you would like life's struggles to ...
I have a husband who literally worships me. And cleans the house. And blow-dries my daughter's hair.
Very softly as he nuzzled her, his mouth near her ear, he began to sing: I'm so happy with you, la, la ...
Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it ...
I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.
But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
Writing is making a mess, and then working and reworking to create a beautiful piece.
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
None of what's become of me was Seattle's fault. Well, it might be Seattle's fault. The people are pretty boring. But let's withhold final judgment ...
As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.
People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.
Lightning hides the colour of night
To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting ...
I want audiences to look at adolescent delinquents with greater understanding and more compassion.
When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.
It is the woman who sheaths her claws and waits for the perfect opportunity who ends up with the cream from the top of the ...
The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
Calling people sweetheart makes most people enraged.
Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. Because I am focused on the solution, I don't see the danger.
Land was more optimistic, "As long as there are some who hang on to their generations and traditions like the Butterfields do here there is ...
By the time the Freedom Flights, to use the US description, came to an end, more than 260,000 Cubans had been airlifted to the United ...
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path ...
Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.
Today a potato, a tomato, some wheat, lettuce, rice, a banana, and blueberries lost their lives for my sake.
Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said."Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.
Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw ...
I passed by your lodging just now, and thought: 'I'll go in to him; he is kinder than any of them, and he was there ...
She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond ...
Ride with them, eat with them, fight with them, for as long as it takes.
Slippery use of the word "privilege" is part of a vogue of calling achievements "privileges" - a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading ...
Was several yards away, Kate spun on her heel, lifting the gun upwards. She took a step back to lead him into the lamp glow ...
It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.
Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say ...
All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
I have never thought I could take it, not evenfor the children. It is all I have wanted to do,to stand between them and and ...
God throws dice, what can I say?
I did it by myself, but I didn't do it alone.
The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to ...
We only understand the true love of our lives when we bound ourself within the boundries of right and wrong.
If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant ...
A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there ...
It is the themes of your heart that will determine the area you will succeed
There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn't notice that the heart is gone.
Yoga is a gift that you give yourself.
Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.
All the stats don't mean a thing if we don't get the win. The most important stat is the win. Nothing else really matters if ...
I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.
Another year passed, much as the first did.
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
I guess I must just be obsessed with death. Apparently you think about it a lot more as you get older. Maybe you could chart ...
I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - ...
Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he ...
I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.
Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that ...
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.
Oh, but my stomach, she is like a waterbed covered in flannel. When I lie on my side in bed, my stomach lies politely beside ...
The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.
I have so many people in my head, I can't keep up with the real people around me. But it's okay, I'm a writer.
And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.
The people who are scared of going on a diet are the people who could benefit the most from one.
And at night, leaning against the frame of her window, Kate said the word aloud to herself for the pure pleasure of saying it, listening ...
Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest ...
We're thankful for the horrors we are used to. The unknown ones are worst
You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.
Where's the truth?" he asked quietly. "What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape ...
Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.
I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me ...
Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.
Though for short periods it seems to be distinguishable as a separate event, the water in the whirlpools is just the river itself.
I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.
Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your ...
Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.
Sometimes we have to break down to break through.
The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation ...
Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vicesAre fathered by our heroism. VirtuesAre forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.
After a couple of years, I realized that this was actually true, that his gave me the ability to go to a different place and, ...
We are working with the communities in building institutional relationships with local governments and businesses to create ways to get value from the Amazonian area ...
I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.
Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning ...
Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, ...
She would always love him. But she would not cease to function because he was gone
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the ...
If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what ...
Esther Duflo, a leading randomista. 'Sometimes
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with ...
Collective violence has flowed regularly out of the central political processes of western countries... The oppressed have struck in the name of justice, the privileged ...
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.