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Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

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.

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough.

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.

Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.

I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement.

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

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

Art needs to stand for something.

...And you're the only one who knows.

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

A woman sitting by herself is not waiting for you.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

When it comes to storytelling, not taking risks is riskier than swinging for the fences. I have very simple ambitions when it comes to taking risks in storytelling and programming. I try very hard to avoid the expected.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Everyone's got to have a dream... It's not reaching your dream that counts. It's going toward them.

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

When it turned on the Jew, Christianity and European civilization turned on the incarnation - albeit an incarnation often wayward and unaware - of its own best hopes.

If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.

The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

This nation is daring and decent and ready for change.

You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

It is insanity to run from God and search for love.

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.

Wherever you go and whomever you meet, you will find your own love waiting for you.

Live today to the fullest, and forget about the past. Today you can create a new way of living. You can change all the rules.

If we want to be respected and honored when we're older, then we must lay the groundwork by respecting and honoring the elders we meet in our lives today. How we treat them today is the way we'll be treated later.

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

The thing that amazes me about getting fired is that nobody ever has anything insightful to say about it. They always say the same thing. They always say, 'Everything happens for a reason.' As lame as that sounds, I guess it’s better to hear it out loud. Because when you hear it in your own head, it sounds like, 'Anything can happen with a razor.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

It's rare when you're actually making a movie and it feels like you're watching a movie in the theater. You feel like a surfer in a wave, catching the wave, going for it every time, there's electricity in the room, it doesn't feel like acting, you ride the wave.

Find something in your life worth fighting for

Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards.

I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.

You have to stand for something bigger than yourself.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself,

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future,

We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones

I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

Country must confront what he called institutional racism. [We should] create a country which provides economic, social and environmental justice for all.

Customers must recognize that you stand for something.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.

It's good to stand for something, to believe in something and base your business on values.

Ah, good ol’ trustworthy beer. My love for you will never die.

Live today like there's no tomorrow!

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, shoot again.

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet.

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.

You can't take life for granted.

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.

The time for change is now.

Your soul is that part of you that always strives for harmony, toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life and as you choose, in each moment, to align yourself with harmony, or at least not to create more disharmony in the situation you're in, then you are consciously choosing to align yourself with your soul. You are consciously moving toward authentic power.

Washington is a dirty diaper. It's time for a change.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now.

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it