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My first big acting performance was in the Marilyn Monroe biography piece, and it required frontal nudity. I talked to Mira Sorvino,… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Who can assure us that we will be alive tomorrow? Let us listen to the voice of our conscience, to the voice… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I… — Cameron Winklevoss Copy Share Image
You knocked the door down." Disbelief rang in his matter-of-fact tone. "I know," she answered,unable to say anything else. Unable to look… — C.C. Hunter Copy Share Image
If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest… — John Newton Copy Share Image
All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
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For starters, I should just tell you that The Band was always my favorite band from the first moment that I heard… — Colin Linden Copy Share Image
Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society.… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible;… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I sat there for several moments, trying to decide how best I should respond. None of the advice I'd gotten from the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment, in the now. When you aren't distracted by your… — Sydney Banks Copy Share Image
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The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people.… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
Death is the moment of form dissolving. When that dissolving is not resisted, an opening appears into the dimension of the sacred,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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