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We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.
As a teenager, Monica Seles won some historic matches on the tennis court, dominating opponents and filling a room with trophies.
Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
How you frame a debate is very important. When you call someone an 'illegal alien,' you've already stacked the deck against them.
Doing something totally new is tricky. If you are second - and if you are smart - you can learn from the first person's mistakes.
My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now
I think the BBC has come a long way in equal pay. I think it's come the furthest of all in the representation of women on screen.
Fashion is a mirror of the era in which we live. Why should the magazine be disconnected from reality? It's not like in the past.
An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.
I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.
I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.
I believe if we only are talking to people who agree with us, we are failing in some way to understand our world and our country.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.
I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.
A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.
True love isn't the kind that endures through long years of absence, but the kind that endures through long years of propinquity.
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her imagination, and then they both speak of it as an affair of 'the heart.
Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.
Good people drink good beer. Just look around any public barroom and you will see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.
Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
You normally don't get a margin call unless your securities, minus the debt, are worth 30% or less of their nominal market value.
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.
Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.
To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.
What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.
The most successful people do not make up the rules as they go. They have a set of rules that they follow and they stick to them.
I think we should always listen to Bill Clinton about everything. And so, if that's his view then that should be the rule of law.
I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.
Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?
Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.
I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that.