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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
If we are lucky, and George W. Bush is right, we are about to witness the War of the Happy Iraqis.
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.
Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
Not even the foulest atrocities of Adolf Hitler ever shocked me so badly as these photographs did.
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.
Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals.
The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They're a cheating team.
My mom is a hero in a lot of ways because she's the most empathetic and kind person I've ever met.
President Obama was not friendly to the press, but the press was very friendly to President Obama.
Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.
If you default on an unsecured debt, you won't lose anything (except points on your credit score).
To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.
For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.
By the time I was three years old, I'd lived at 10 different addresses in six different countries.
My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.
An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.
Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.
My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.
If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.
There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.
There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.
Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.
When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.
Despite Obama's claim that pro-Second Amendment groups want less gun safety, the opposite is true.
In Shaker Heights, Ohio, one of America's first planned communities, order and harmony are prized.
I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.
A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.
1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.
I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.
Do one thing every day that scares you. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?
When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.
You feel better in the short run when you have a tub of ice cream, but in the long run, you don't.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.