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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.
The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
The Democratic lawmakers are still trying to figure out how to capitalize on this new wave of leftist anger, if you want to call it that.
President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.
I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.
It turns out that the Republican Party is not a hero to anyone but the racist, xenophobic caricature of a candidate that is Donald Trump.
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat
Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.
I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side.
When I was a young student, I thought grow-ups would come and make things work. Now I realize that grown-ups are just kids with wrinkles.
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.
I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.
Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
We've gone through many different permutations of coffee-making, from grinding our own beans to the regular drip to an iced coffee maker.
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.
Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.
You can get some work, some jobs that will bore you until you're dead. So you better look for something that's got a little tingle to it.
This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up" about Hillary Clinton.
I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.
Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
I think that you have a situation where one political party, in specific, if you watched the Republican debate, it's all about terrorism.
Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.
There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.
The difficulty that WikiLeaks has, of course, is that we can't go around speculating on who our sources are. That would be irresponsible.
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.
Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.
My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.