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IN THE MAKING I saw my first Friesian back in 1980 when I was a judge at the California State Fair. I just couldn'...
DAVE ADAMS My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active i...
KAMALA HARRIS I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
G-EAZY Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition t...
ELTON GALLEGLY The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just...
LAWRENCE R. KLEIN Well, I hate small talk, and I refuse to become one of those old people who spends all their time te...
HELEN COX You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
GARY WRIGHT It was a great feeling. Senior year, at home in front of my crowd. All my friends were here supporti...
COLIN MILLER Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone ...
TED CRUZ If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS When God made love it came from the heavens, as a blessing to humanity and life.Love is pure when fo...
GARY F EVANS... I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by si...
NINA BAWDEN When I was 11 years old, I was bullied. It mainly started when I moved to California to pursue my dr...
RAINI RODRIGUEZ Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I note that a group of students at the University of California in Berkeley want to visit China and ...
ANNA LOUISE STRONG In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS A law that very specifically said no state can give in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless that s...
KRIS KOBACH You know, currently 700 offenders a month are put back into the streets in California with no risk a...
MARC KLAAS Caitlyn (telling a story of her friend): So. [She] grew up and left Neverland for the distant planet...
ZECHARIAH BARRETT This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH The process of arriving at the tuition was different this year.... The conclusion was that ... there...
GREG HAND The company (was) sold in 1988; then I played for a year. Then I was at Ball State when one of my fo...
GLEN SNOW You don't know that and I don't know that!
MICHELE COSTELLO The whiskey’s power released his repressed memories so fast that his words raced to keep up with t...
PASCAL MARCO His shoulder might be hurting like a son of a bitch and he was more than slightly sloshed but he rec...
VICKIE MCKEEHAN California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn th...
GAVIN NEWSOM Our excellent third quarter results were driven by continued outstanding performance at Rockwell Col...
DON DAVIS When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When in doubt, do it.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.
ERIC S. RAYMOND Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late '70s. It...
DAVID BYRNE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental su...
DAVID GROSS All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all whit...
JIMMY CARTER When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that...
LANCE BURTON Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
HEARD IN ARKANSAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING: defined in such a way that WE ALL AGREE upon it's shared relevance and WHY WE WI...
HOMELESS IN FAIRFAX I relieve and release your hurt that you may be set free.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, wher...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND People who suffer from migraine with aura can sometimes experience a phenomenon called the
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I don't care much where ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND We're all mad here.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?
Alice Kingsley: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll te...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Walter: Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it.
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Alice falls down the rabbit hole and her dress poofs up like a parachute] Alice: Well, after this I ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I've probably gone as far as I can with that particular genre,
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Sometimes, I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because ever...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Lawyers have an old saying: If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If the law is on your si...
- LAWYERS (IN GENERAL...) Spin City.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND You mean you ca'n't take *less*. It's very easy to take *more* than nothing.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Gosh, you were so good. Maybe Bill (Clinton) could take a couple of days off, and you could fill in ...
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE I don't even know him...I'm harvesting all these fantasies about some man I've never even met...who ...
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE Sam Baldwin: [looking at a photograph] She looks like my third grade teacher, and I hated my third g...
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE [Montana wheat variety yield increases give Montana farmers more wheat to sell, but the situation re...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Definitions vary,In Government it depends on which agency you go to. They all get to re-invent their...
HOMELESS IN FAIRFAX A girl as small as a violet, a girl who moves like a flower petal – is pulling me toward her with ...
KIM IN YOOK We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN I obtained a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Fellowship and entered the graduate program in History at the U...
ROBERT LUCAS, JR. Mobile notifications put people in a state of perpetual emergency interruption - similar to what 911...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
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GAIL SIMMONS Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food...
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GAIL SIMMONS Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night.
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GAIL SHEEHY The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
GAIL SHEEHY Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
GAIL SHEEHY I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
GAIL SHEEHY It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
GAIL SHEEHY Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
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GAIL SHEEHY We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appre...
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GAIL SHEEHY All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ...
GAIL SHEEHY People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
GAIL SHEEHY Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough....
GAIL SHEEHY Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a na...
GAIL SHEEHY If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
GAIL SHEEHY We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fea...
GAIL SHEEHY Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of ski...
GAIL SHEEHY I do tend to overdo everything.
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GAIL PORTER I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
GAIL PORTER I read everything and anything. I love books.
GAIL PORTER Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
GAIL PORTER I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 sea...
GAIL PORTER My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
GAIL PORTER I don't believe in God.
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GAIL PORTER Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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GAIL PORTER I try to cope with everything through humor.
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GAIL PARENT Laughter made you live better and longer.
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GAIL DEVERS It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won.
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GAIL DEVERS I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. ...
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GAIL DEVERS It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
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GAIL DEVERS It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
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GAIL CARRIGER As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores...
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GAIL CARRIGER I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.
GAIL CARRIGER At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t...
GAIL CARRIGER To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I l...
GAIL CARRIGER I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It'...
GAIL CARRIGER I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there does...
GAIL CARRIGER Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell...
GAIL CARRIGER As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific...
GAIL CARRIGER I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and ...
GAIL CARRIGER I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. ...
GAIL CARRIGER Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to ...
GAIL CARRIGER Smoke machines are the best!
GAIL CARRIGER I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. ...
GAIL CARRIGER The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habi...
GAIL SHEEHY Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough....
GAIL SHEEHY If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON Everything seems simpler from a distance.
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GAIL HAMILTON Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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GAIL GODWIN Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer va...
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GAIL SHEEHY To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
GAIL SHEEHY We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people ...
GAIL SHEEHY When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
GAIL SHEEHY Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision...
GAIL DEVERS The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal:...
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GAIL PARENT Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GAIL DEVERS I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can...
GAIL SIMMONS In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years...
GAIL DEVERS I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta...
GAIL SIMMONS Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ...
GAIL SHEEHY Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ...
GAIL SHEEHY When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY Patience is the secret to good food.
GAIL SIMMONS I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin...
GAIL SHEEHY Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of...
GAIL SIMMONS In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas...
GAIL SHEEHY I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha...
GAIL BLANKE There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con...
GAIL GODWIN If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
GAIL SHEEHY