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I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.

My expertise is running businesses.

To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is.

I had a dream. And it came true.

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.

If you're having a bad day, get on with your job, because you having a bad day can affect everyone around you.

Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.

It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

I didn't grow up acting. I really just started, literally, when I was 18. I just feel like it's a thing of always just experiencing it and growing, as a person.

Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.

I no longer have the fear of being alone. It's cool to find out that you don't need a boyfriend to be happy.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.

... there are shadows because there are hills.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters intertwine and interact, plotlines and story, and things like that, it really makes a difference.

Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.

I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

After years of doing impressions, its time for a change.

Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intelligence that it would be the result of a huge project ... a great mass of silicon and ancient transistors and chips and circuit boards ... a machine with lots of networking circuits, in other words, aping-if you will pardon the expression-the human brain in form and function. Of course, AIs did not evolve that way. They sort of slipped into existence when we humans were looking the other way.

Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

God has plans, not problems for our lives.

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

It was my father who taught me to value myself...

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another, "Molly, my dear, I would have bought that new brand of toilet soap if only they hadn't set the body copy in ten point Garamond." Don't you believe it. What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

Some achieve a reputation for great successes when in fact all they have done is take chances that reasonable people wouldn't take.

I know that God has a plan for my life.

Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Being a lady does not require silence.

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty,

Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Take the time to define yourself and define your value. If you're having a hard time doing that, ask yourself: What is something I would say to someone I love?

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

Frank (Frank Sinatra) is a singer who comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come in mine?

When you have a good time there is no time.

One person can make a difference. In fact, its not only possible for one person to make a difference, its essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

Mitt Romney, who is on record saying that he would not waste money going after bin Laden, and on record saying he would not violate Pakistan's border to get bin Laden, this week said, 'Of course I would have gotten bin Laden.' Even his Etch-A-Sketch went, seriously?

When you are in a hole, stop digging!

I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.

YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

There is no greater reward than working from your heart and making a difference in the world.

I liked being a kid. I liked being a student.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

I could make a difference.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.