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I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out more than 132,000 such loans in 2007, an increase of more than 270 percent from two years earlier.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

You get to really master the emotion of humility as a Chiefs fan.

Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?

Out of nowhere, they made an interim belt and had Lee fight Ferguson. This is very odd for me; what went on there? You know. I don't know what went on there.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

It would be great to go to school all year and do movies during the summer, but it doesn't work that way. I'm not Julia Roberts, so I have to be flexible.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

We love God best by loving each other.

The heart that gives, gathers.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success.

Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.

When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put in boxes: the virginal good girl, the really sarcastic asexual one. I wanted to do something that represented how I felt then.

It feels like I’m stuck in one spot. It’s been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you’re moving on without me. And I—I’m not ready to be alone.

So it’s up to you where you want to go…. You will decide whether to chase an infinite target or a measurable value.

If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.

In my opinion, there's nothing better than practicing a play all week and then going on the field and thinking, 'This is going to be a touchdown.'