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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.
When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression
I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.
Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.
The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. ...
TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are ...
The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.
I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.
I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.
Writing novels is really all about making people think, and even more, making them feel things.
When you're connected to the ocean, you really don't think about what's going on with your email or texts or any of that. You're just ...
The future of Arab films is absolutely up to Arabs and no one else. They've got the equipment, they've got the will, they've got the ...
If you people to recognize your, first serve them.
If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a ...
And while seeing Trent in his tighty-whities would make my decade, I'd found out long ago that I couldn't stay mad at a man wearing ...
When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay ...
Unfortunately I'm not on the same wavelength as Maria yet in the literary sphere. She writes me such good, natural letters, but she reads ... ...
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel.
I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took.
I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the ...
I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out ... put myself through high school ...
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of ...
No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.
The phones are smarter but we are dumber.
Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.
If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to ...
Why would you apologize for what you read for pleasure? Just think of the illiteracy rate. Every book read for pleasure should be celebrated. And ...
You're like a gem shining ever brightly in an ever dimming world.
I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not.
Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.
On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18,000 feet.
He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built churches, ...
Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for ...
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it ...
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.
If you're going to school, you should do what you enjoy.
In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost ... the bombing and ...
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
Done is better than perfect. Time for a martini.
The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a ...
If fire doesn't raze the mountain, the land will not be fertile.
Even a stone would talk if you broke its teeth.
And we had just invented the first of a set of what I would call fusion entities - characters, that could only exist when the ...
We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is ...
I work very hard on my health, and I think about it, of course, like I've never thought before.
Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said, condescendingly. Hullo. Nice to see ...
I get scared because things are finite, and I don't want them to be finite with you.
I stepped free of Isambard and shoved Michael in the chest. I caught him off guard. He tumbled to the dock, and rolled into the ...
There was at least one morning I was certain, though only for a few hours, that everything that could ever really happen to me had ...
My first book deal was actually for a textbook - 'Judo and You' - that I wrote while teaching at Temple University. A scout for ...
My parents were Christian.
I never should have left you. I'll never stop loving you, even if you hate me for walking away.
With trembling hands, Zach opened the front cover and flipped to the dedication page. To Zachary Easton, my editor. Fuck you.
I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be ...
If you bed enough women, some will give you presents,
Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.
It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.
Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.
Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you!
A difference between the sane and the insane is not just about appearance or attitude but the usage of time.
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa ...
She wears only black-rimmed glasses, and is holding a paperback titled Murder and Mayhem in Goose Pimple Junction. Her light
It took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children ...
Because we are imperfect souls, our knowledge is imperfect. The history of learning is an adventure in overcoming our errors. There is no sin in ...
If you haven't got eyes, you shouldn't have wings
Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where ...
Putting on the same jerseys doesn't make a team. You're still just a collection of individuals until you find a common goal.
I didn't go to parties or anything like that.
Here or nowhere is our heaven.
The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the 'la dolce vita' lifestyle. I'm happy ...
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, ...
Bow your head little Okht, it's time.
Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its ...
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. ...
So do all animals react that way to you? I know you said rats steer clear.""Most do. They see a human, but they smell someting ...
The religious Jew is to study Torah for the sake of studying Torah. Torah lishmah. The ingenuity of the edict, I realized was that it ...
I've taken [acting] class with Larry Moss, who's more kind of in the theater world, so he's really educated me about playwrights.
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.
I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.
Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.
We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation ...
Freedom is never free.
Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.
Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.
Fear of the right type can be beneficial to the people of God (see Prov. 1:7), but the fear of man's hostile intentions seldom fits ...
I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters ...
Monsters are bad things, but monsters that do not walk and talk like monsters are the worst.
It is the small, mundane choices we make every day that cause the biggest difference
The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best ...