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I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
My mother is everything to me. She's my anchor, she's the person I go to when I need to talk to someone. She is an amazing woman.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people.
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Across Massachusetts, there are many talented and inspiring educators doing for their students what their predecessors did for me.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
It's inspiring to watch people love my dad and want to work with him. I feel that same investment in making sure people are happy.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.
We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
The most beautiful destination I've been to was the Seychelles Islands, and the most culturally inspiring place was Mumbai, India.
We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
There is power in helping people get excited about what they do and inspiring and motivating them to unleash their full potential.
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems... It's got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.
The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.
Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
At the heart of 'CBS News' is a group of inspiring, enterprising people led by the outstanding team of David Rhodes and Jeff Fager.
You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.
It is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt that more firearms in a society actually cuts the amount of crime in that same society.