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Genuine fearlessness arises with the confidence that we will be able to gather the inner resources to deal with any situation that comes our way.
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.
Actually, you’re way off.” “Oh?” the guard asked. “Yup. She’s not a werewolf, she’s a chupacabra. Have you noticed a lot of missing goats lately?
The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.
If you do what you love, hold nothing back, and never let fear of failure get in your way, then you've pretty much figured out the Trump formula.
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.
Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]
I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.
We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways - the ways we react and behave when we love someone.
I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.
How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.
The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we'd have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.
That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.
I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.
I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
A lot of people would think I have led this easy kind of charmed life, or maybe even a fairytale in some ways. But it has been anything but that.
Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.
I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.
Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.
There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.
My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.
What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked. Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.
... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.
There's a bit of pressure when you're reimagining something so iconic and loved. But the only way you can really do it is completely reinvent it.
I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.
When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.
Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.
The most important thing is to figure out Your goal in life. If Your intentions and methods are correct, there is no way You will not achieve it.
Rahul is the kind of person who young cricketers can look up to; not only because of his success but also because of the way he conducts himself.
Ninety-nine per cent of what we say is about values. I firmly believe that ethical capitalism is the best way of changing society for the better.
I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.
It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.