Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.
You’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can’t you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that’s different from a California textbook that’s different from a Massachusetts textbook. That’s very expensive.
Screenplays I didn’t really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‘A-hem!’ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.
I wasn’t as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I’m not sure what difference that made.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‘lays out a line.’ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.
I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
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