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If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
The evidence is pretty strong: if you have access to family planning and birth control, the abortion rate is going to go down.
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.
It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
If you ask me whether the election of Barack Obama is the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream, I say, 'No, it's just a down payment.'
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
Strong alliances can thrive even where disagreements exist, but they cannot thrive where free and open communication is shut down.
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people's defenses down, and once they're down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.
A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
That's what my life has come down to - how can I have fun for me, be with my friends and my family, and how can I help other people.
It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.
I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
The costs of solar energy across the world have come down so fast that its growth as a cheap, clean energy source has been exponential.
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
We're a blip in the existence of the universe, and we're constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.
My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.
I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
You can't play a high school student forever, so at some point, I'm going to have to tear down that wall and tear off that wig and be me.
My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.
Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.