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Simple isn't always easy - Kat Von D

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." - Neil Gaiman

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you’re a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you’re a vegetarian.”
― Dennis Wholey

I look at "Death Proof" and realize I had too much time.
- Quentin Tarantino

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

- RuPaul

"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... timey wimey... stuff" - The Doctor

“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.”
― Thomas A. Edison

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

- Pontius Pilate

"If you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will surely follow" T E Roosevelt

Let nothing human be foreign to me.

- Kate Christensen

''Sky above me, Earth below me, Fire within me''

~Unknown~

We all grow up with the weight of history on us.
Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~ Shirley Abbott

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

- Marilyn Manson

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile. ~ The Joker.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

Frisbeeterianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
- George Carlin

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
― Dr. Seuss

Think globally, act locally.

- Paul McCartney

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

Guilt is weird thing to me, I don't have a lot of it.

- Andy Dick

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Ronald Reagan

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
- Pete Townshend

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

--Thomas Jefferson

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

- Phyllis Schlafly

“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

Frankly, Mr. Shankly, this position I've held
It pays my way and it corrodes my soul
Oh, I didn't realize you wrote poetry
I didn't realize you wrote such bloody awful poetry Mr. Shankly
- Morrissey

You wanna see me burn? I am living fire! - Otep Shamaya

I'm very lucky that I have a good cosmetic surgeon.

- Sharon Osbourne

“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
― Booker T. Washington

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

- Angelina Jolie

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- William S. Burroughs

“To be truthful i am not entirely sure what people mean when they talk of happiness. There are moments of joy and laughter, the comfort of friendship, but enduring happiness? If it exists i have not found it”
― David Gemmell

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

- Alexander the Great

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

- Pearl S. Buck

The truth is love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not not that uncommon.

- Angelina Jolie

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right. - David Brudnoy

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Will Rogers

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

- Frederick Douglass

Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

-Se7en

Justice is sweet and musical but injustice is harsh and discordant. - Henry David Thoreau

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- John Wolfgang von Goethe

"only two things in this world are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, and I'm not sure about the universe" ~ Albert Einstein

“Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

“I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

“Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine."
"My mom suffers from those a lot, too."
"Being around you, I imagine she does.”

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face to become successful.
- Zig Ziglar

"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

-Nicolaus Copernicus

…You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living ― Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”
― Thomas S. Monson

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

“I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn’t mean it’s not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity

“You need to up your vocabulary, boy. You can’t walk around letting people think you’re stupid. Expand your horizons. Besides, it’s fun to call people names they have to look up to realize they’ve been insulted. (Mark)
Yeah, that’s a twofer there. You get away with it and then they’re twice as mad when they realize how bad you really insulted them. Especially if they mistake it for a compliment when you say it and thank you for it. (Bubba)”

“It’s four o’clock, guys. I’m going up to watch Oprah. Unless the shop catches fire or we’re under massive zombie invasion, I don’t exist for the next hour. On second thought, don’t bother me if it’s zombies – I’ll deal with them later. Today’s a special episode on how to make peace with people who piss you off. And I definitely need to find my Zen. (Bubba)
Your Zen’s shooting stuff, Bubba. Embrace your inner violence. (Mark)
Fine, then. My inner violence says I’ll cut your throat if you bother me until Oprah ends, so sod off. (Bubba)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis

The first requisite for immortality is death.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

I can feel the cold hand of death and the end drawing near I've seen thoughts of the men and all which they fear - poltergeist

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."

-Galileo Galilei

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.
- Amy Winehouse

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."

-Leonardo da Vinci

I believe in long, prolonged, derangedment of tthe senses in order to obtain the unknown.

- Jim Morrison

"Destruction is good for my soul, but it sucks to be you"
Apollymi

I'd rather be a bitch than a doormat.
- Jessica Zafra

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

― Benjamin Franklin

"Go ahead and talk shit about who I used to be, I do it too. That person has been dead and long gone for awhile now."
- my quote to all the rumor-mongers that still talk shit and spread lies about things I did years ago~rolls eyes~

"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

-Christopher Columbus

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood

- Robin Wright Penn

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

-Theodore Roosevelt

This water's dark and cold. God's not where you hoped. He's more than come and gone, It's time we all moved on. Still I remind myself, how I define myself...
- Karnivool, song lyrics quoted from "Deadman"

“There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon

words have no power to impress the mind without the esquisite horror of reality.
- Edgar Allan Poe

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

-Aristotle

“You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

"Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

-Cicero

I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. Goddammit, I'm a billionaire.
- Howard Hughes

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."

-Washington Irving

“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”
― Lynsay Sands, Love Bites

“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.”
― Lynsay Sands, Love Is Blind

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
― Ezra Pound

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Fr. Jerome Cummings
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

-Winston Churchill

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. -
Walter Scott

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

-Lao Tzu

You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like it.
- Andrew Davies

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
― John F. Kennedy

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

- Robert Smith

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

-Aristotle

"God is with us" - Dracula in 'Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron' by Kim Newman

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

-Plato

I am trying to practice owning less stuff.
- Alexandra Paul

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."

-Charles Dickens

Be kind - for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Unknown

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."

-Confucius

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