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In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.
Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.
I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.
In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness.
Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.
You've got to have as many good times as bad, or it all becomes too painful and too much work.
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
If I wrote a Jewish superhero, he'd have awesome time-traveling powers. I'd call him Doctorow.
You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.
At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.
There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.
Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.
Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
I went to the doctor. I said to him "I'm frightened of lapels." He said, "You've got cholera."
Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves
Faffing of course does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.
Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.
WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.
Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day
First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.