Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose rulers are perhaps more terrified of women than rulers anywhere else in the world, allowed limited municipal elections.
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It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.
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There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
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The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
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Fame may last for only 15 minutes, in Andy Warhol's famous calculation, but it arrives quickly and requires instant attention, lest it vanish before it can be fully exploited.
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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
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We need to make a decision, no matter what it is.
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Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.
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By taking things personally, you set yourself up to suffer. The impact on you and the ripple effects on those around you are unhealthy.
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Q: How many actors does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 15, one to change it 14 to grumble, 'I could have done that part, I was up to it'
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Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.
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And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.
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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
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Being present starts with recognizing when you are ignoring, denying or judging the present circumstances and shifting to learning, understanding and creating.
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A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.
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Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
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Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
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If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.
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Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets.
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Misery is when grown-ups don't realize how miserable kids can feel.
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All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.
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In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.
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Of course, in the art class, I was the model.
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
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What's the point in doing something worthwhile if nobody can see you?'
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