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Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. HUSTON SMITH All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I think there has to be, as we've just indicated, some arrangements for a transitional process that ... MIKE MCCURRY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are cer... ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are cer... ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are cer... ALBERT EINSTEIN As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are ce... MAX WILHELM DEHN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER There definitely was a perception if he was in the field he was going to win ? at that time. I think... LEE JANZEN I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I think the tradition of both schools has something to do with the consistency, and the community an... JOE BRANDA I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY The perception now is that (Woods) is still the guy to beat. But I don't think guys think it's a giv... LEE JANZEN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE You know I have not seen people doing back flips about the fact that he's mountain biking. But I thi... MIKE COOLEY A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categ... GARY LARSON Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That ... NAT WOLFF I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing m... RATI TSITELADZE Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its z... EDUARDO GALEANO There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL I do the things I love on the theory that ? there might be other people enjoying the same things tha... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I think there are certain winters when there is a lot of viral activity, and interrupting that cycle... JOHN RICCI So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as... V. E. SCHWAB The political situation is as hot as the temperature. I think frankly we are on a knife edge. There ... CHRIS PATTEN I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk. VIKAS SWARUP This life is not given to us as a pastime. There was a solemn purpose in our creation, in the life t... GEORGE ALBERT SMITH A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I was very into animals and nature, and really obsessed with cats and monkeys. I used to play in the... TIG NOTARO You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the con... BILL GATES The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Everyone has to judge for themselves, ... Lance realizes where he is now is because of the Tour de F... JOHAN BRUYNEEL Some witnesses have given us information that leads us to say that could be a possibility. Until we ... CAPT. CHUCK MOAD We would definitely be disappointed if we didn't win, no doubt. The tradition established by the ath... CRAIG HARRIS Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, an... WES CRAVEN The quality of the thought that a person has got inside and sought from outside is likely to decide ... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI Though it's fearful, Though it's deep, though it's dark And though you may lose the path... STEPHEN SONDHEIM Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality o... ROBERT MACNEIL I do not think that any realism is beautiful. H. P. LOVECRAFT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life... HARMONY KORINE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Awareness is the fundamental discipline that affects us in everything that we do. If we can perfect ... ANIL GUPTA Our message of ensuring every Hoosier has access to a quality education that turns into a good payin... TODD YOUNG It is something that I refer to as a little miracle. Boys' Town is a secret that we now want for peo... CARL BROWN There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Paul Hoffman had some initial suggestions and prompted us. Paul Hoffman was playing devil's advocate... DAVID BARNA Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quali... ROBERT MACNEIL When we did the rape kit, there was physical evidence discovered that leads us to believe that she i... LT. RUBEN DIAZ Compared to the other teams, it definitely seems like a younger team to me. But I think that everybo... MICHAEL STRAHAN There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is... JORGE LUIS BORGES When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But th... DAN STEVENS I think the fact that he now has a stepmother who probably is very kind to him is a settling factor.... BROOKS BAKER All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retri... JOHN YORKE The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL There is a $600 million break up fee presuming certain events happen. I don't think it is a given th... COLIN DEVINE Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I thin... DIANA GABALDON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. They beat us, but we also beat them (earlier this season). I like to call us the hub of junior girls... ASHLEY YOUNG As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited rea... JORGE LUIS BORGES I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm ... BRYAN VOLPENHEIN I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do. DAVE GAHAN Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it le... ERICA JONG We are all just really excited to get back on track. This program has a huge tradition of success an... JENNIFER ROCKWOOD Some people refer to it as the Purdue rule, which is a block by a guy, to an adjacent lineman, below... JOE TILLER Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I li... KELIS Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fi... LYDIA MILLET I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition... DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change. MIKE WHITE The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of... JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
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ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe... ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year. ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500... ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ... ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w... ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone.... ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it. ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything. ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive... PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun. ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time). ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all. ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer. ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible... AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes... AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate. AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug. AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit. AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get. AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your... AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil... ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow... REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ... REID HOFFMAN