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- I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind.…
- You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe.…
- It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks…
- When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to…
- But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how…
- I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the…
- The girls I dream of are the gentle ones, wistful by high windows or singing sweet old songs at a piano, long hair drifting, tender…
- For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars,…
- Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands…
- I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it…
- ...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had…
- Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To…
- I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.
- The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't…
- It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe…
- This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell…
- This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn't run any farther she left it behind like…
- I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. My gift, or fatal flaw, is for nostalgia. I have sometimes been accused…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong