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My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him back with interest.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Today's a beautiful day, and yesterday was a beautiful day, so that means it's a great life.

As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement of the 1960s and early 1970s has, in her view, all but crumbled in the face of a bombardment of sadism and misogyny, the withholding of civil liberties, and the nation's move from proud speech into near-deafening silence.

I love the national anthem.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.

Tum daulat ki Kya baat karte ho Maine gareeb ko aksar pur sukoon dekha hai

Libertad no es hacer lo que queremos hacer sino hacer lo que debemos hacer.

I always said to myself when I first started wrestling that I was gonna put absolutely everything into it - into becoming the absolute best pro wrestling that I could be.

Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.

There is no doubt that in the last years of the UPA's rule, a certain lethargy had set into the way the central government went about its business.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.

Harry Reid and the Senate haven't passed a budget. Their pay should be reduced until they do.