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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
We can all learn to live jubilantly. We can all learn to alter our attitudes so that we can better realize our dreams.
No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.
I do believe in that thing about the reading audience being very important to the formation of the novel at its birth.
Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.
I want to be as creatively disruptive as possible. I want to be radically transparent in a way that isn't showboating.
In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.
There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.
If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.
I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.
Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't.
Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.
I think it is true that you can eat extremely healthy food at McDonald's, and you can eat amazingly badly at Chipotle.
I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play.
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
Anyone who has spent five seconds in my company, or two seconds in my bedroom knows that I am not a white supremacist.
As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and I came to attend high school in Massachusetts when I was about 15 years old.
That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.
Getting out any weekly magazine requires many hours of reading, choosing, discarding, and thinking beyond the obvious.
The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare].
President Bashar Assad's regime is in the unique position of being targeted both by Israel and supporters of al Qaeda.
If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum.
White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.
Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.