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I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
Twyla Tharp
The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.
Ray Comfort
They succeed, because they think they can.
Virgil
Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.
Kim Cattrall
The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
Peace Pilgrim
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
David Boies
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.
Rick Santorum
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
Alan Dundes
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
Sarah Zettel
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S. Truman
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
Margot Kidder
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Joseph Addison
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.
I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.
Lea Michele
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I'm kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family - their privacy. That's what I'm more protective of.
Hugh Jackman
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne
See in what peace a Christian can die.
The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Louis Aragon
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
Halle Berry
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
Bob Feller
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
It is always in season for old men to learn.
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
Joel Osteen
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