Express yourself, Because your opinion matters


If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

Recently, I went to a disco with friends, and all the young people were saying, 'Dudamel, we want to go to your concert, but it's impossible because it's sold out.' It's really amazing.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.

My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build.

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you search, and you will find knock, and the door will be opened for you.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

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