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A couple of months ago I hauled my white ass on stage alongside Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder for Divas Las Vegas, singing in front of a celebrity audience. If I can hold my own there, I can hold my own at Top of the Pops, trust me. — Lisa Marie Presley

I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore. — Kahlil Gibran

Evil and charismatic. A most dangerous combination. — Carrie Anne Noble

those who were quick to see ignorance in others were far less knowledgeable than they imagined. — Arthur Lupia

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos. — Goenawan Mohamad

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I — Stanley Hauerwas

I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done. — Bertrand Russell

Christianity is a marketable product. It has very little to do with Jesus Christ. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ at all - what the experience was like to be around the guy. — Frederick Lenz

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all. — Robin Hobb

No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best. — Michael Jackson

Aren't we all alone?" I asked with a rueful smile.
"Yes. I think in the end, we all are, no matter what the songs and happy stories say. I guess it's just a matter of who we choose to be alone with."
"That's why I come here, you know. To be alone with other people. There's isolation in a crowd. You're hidden. Safe. — Richelle Mead

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing. — Todd Lieberman

Then, as if in answer to a riddle posed years before, you will realize that this growth came from seeds you planted or watered or carried from place to place - and you'll be rewarded in the way that we as communal beings need most: you'll know you made a difference. — Gloria Steinem

We can pretend neither exists. We can try to stifle the fires of both or merely let them smolder. Yet in the end, neither will be denied. In the short term, the confusion may be discomforting. If we have the patience, however, to look beyond the changes, if we have the humility to realize that still there are events beyond our control, we might just act wisely. For when the winds of change come, we can be among the trees that snap. Or we can be the growth that sprouts beneath the sun. We cannot stop the wind. But we can choose whether we will grow, or whether we will wither. — Jim Brandenburg

Life is divine chaos. — Jillian Dodd