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Cynthia Ozick quote: "In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works..."

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

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I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way. Josh Hutcherson
Learned Hand quote: "In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the..."
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. Learned Hand
So secure was his power that rumblings of discontent had finally surfaced within his own base, among black nationalists upset with his willingness to cut whites and Hispanics into the action, among activists disappointed with his failure to tackle poverty head-on, and among people who preferred the dream to the reality, impotence to compromise. Barack Obama
J. K. Rowling quote: "Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley,..."
Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something. J. K. Rowling
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. Marilu Henner
Paul Whiteman quote: "Jazz is the folk music of the machine age."
Jazz is the folk music of the machine age. Paul Whiteman
Nikita Khrushchev quote: "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build..."
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Nikita Khrushchev
The memos that came from above telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him because they'd been dictated by semi-literates; all they proved was that no one at AnooYou was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police. Margaret Atwood
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question? John Cage
Ray Liotta quote: "It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke..."
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her. Ray Liotta
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same. Bob Dylan
Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within oneself of the highest universal principle of life. But it is only true love and affords all the happiness it can give when it is simply love, free from anything personal, from the smallest drop of personal bias towards its object. And such love can only be felt for one’s enemy, for those who hate and offend. Thus, the injunction to love not those who love us, but those who hate us, is not an... Leo Tolstoy
No True Talent is fully organic. Yet the superior talented have not only control of study but that extra special, little gift at birth--fueled by passion.A built in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, New Age,fuckin cosmic energy bursting love for passion. And yes,they are an even smaller percent amongst the small percent. And they are special! Kurt Cobain
Saku Koivu quote: "The most important thing is to stay positive."
The most important thing is to stay positive. Saku Koivu
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty! William Shakespeare