And Quotes

In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.

In high school I would mess with my hair and makeup all the time.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

I began with track and field because this is what I know.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.

The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God.

You can't just turn love on and off.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.

Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

I think this is very applicable to men and women - that they are looking for love in all the wrong places.

Everyone is caught in the web of his or her own actions and is bound by past karmas (actions). Good and bad are relative terms. Every action takes one to the next place.

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

We need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.

So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me.

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

Why is it when I’m the one shot, I’m a baby, but when it’s you, it’s a matter of life and death and national security? (Joe) Because I’m cuter in a short skirt. (Tee)

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

I’m getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate)

I warn you now. Anything happens to my mate or my son, we will hunt you down and rip you into so many pieces they’ll never find all of you. (Vane)

Do Mom and Dad know you’re dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I’ll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric)

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

When he bowed to all those buddhas, the buddhas he bowed to were beyond his own understanding. Again and again he did it.

It is not after we understand the truth that we attain enlightenment. To realize the truth is to live - to exist here and now.