I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Francis Quarles

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Karl Marx

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.

Nia Long

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Ambrose Bierce

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

Albert Einstein

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Norah Jones

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Barbra Streisand

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

Kathleen Turner

A good test of a man's religion is its vitality.

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Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.

The Talmud

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

Terry Pratchett