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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn't stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.

I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.

A row is looking long enough with good and bad souls. Bad ones are feeling overwhelmed and pleasing for having a good life on earth. Good ones are now following them.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.

You can't believe anything that's written in an historical novel, and yet the author's job is always to create a believable world that readers can enter. It's especially so, I think, for writers of historical fiction.

I don't like popcorn, and I think it's so annoying when people have popcorn in the theaters. That is the loudest food.

I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.

If we're going to be successful and be considered credible in the Hispanic community, we've got to denounce some of the ignorant statements that are made about Hispanics and the contributions we make, whether it's to the military, our nation's economy, or to the history of Texas.

The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation.

If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.