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Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing.


David A. R. White

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PRITISH PATTANAIK Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You mistake patience for forbearance.
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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
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ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we...
TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but the...
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She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
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GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
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CARTER CROCKER There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can’t. So we write them down. Or we paint...
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PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim to know (or at least believe i...
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ALBERT CAMUS In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter f...
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JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
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BILLY BOYD We had a guy in our company -- this is what he does for a living -- fall for one. The guy was so con...
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JESMYN WARD I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, an...
WENDY DAVIS Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
JAMES VI & I He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”

-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
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LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
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R. A. BENTINCK I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture o...
A. R. RAHMAN I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
A. R. RAHMAN A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be ...
A. R. RAHMAN I don't want to expose my personal life. It's best that people know me for my work. My famil...
A. R. RAHMAN I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just ...
A. R. RAHMAN I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy ...
A. R. RAHMAN Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to ...
A. R. RAHMAN I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A. R. RAHMAN The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta...
A. R. RAHMAN My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody l...
A. R. RAHMAN I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music...
A. R. RAHMAN I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that....
A. R. RAHMAN I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I a...
A. R. RAHMAN While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
A. R. RAHMAN What Does It Matter What We Believe, as long as we treat others the way we want to be treated?
JEFFREY A. WHITE " Your life is only worth; what you think its worth living for? What do you think?" Dawayne A White
DAWAYNE A WHITE Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.
JEFFREY A. WHITE We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.
DAVID R. BROWER Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the P...
DAVID R. BROWER There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on...
DAVID R. BROWER No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of...
DAVID R. ELLIS We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
DAVID R. BROWER Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
DAVID R. ELLIS With spiritual work, the terms 'is' or 'are' become progressively replaced by the term 'seems to', w...
DAVID R. HAWKINS Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, interbalancing, ever...
DAVID R. HAWKINS We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
DAVID R. HAWKINS You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful. It's the neediness that's t...
DAVID R. HAWKINS Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.
DAVID R. HAWKINS All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger com...
DAVID R. HAWKINS It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because what...
DAVID R. HAWKINS Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are. If you're fri...
DAVID R. HAWKINS I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on th...
DAVID R. GERGEN Spiritual evolution occurs as the result of removing obstacles and not actually acquiring anything n...
DAVID R. HAWKINS Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassiona...
DAVID R. HAWKINS The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occur...
DAVID R. HAWKINS The downside of spiritual education is the buildup of the vanity of 'I know' and the devaluation of ...
DAVID R. HAWKINS Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
DAVID R. BROWER The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chem...
DAVID R. BROWER I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the...
DAVID R. BROWER At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You...
DAVID R. BROWER I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything--what a relief!
DAVID R. HAWKINS I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited ...
DAVID R. BROWER