August 2009
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If you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of...
– John Irving (via thoughtsdetained) (via finallyseeing)
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that...
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via reluctantbuddha)
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Well, there’s a certain sense that animals and children have that gives me...
– Michael Jackson to Ebony Magazine in May 1992
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I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the...
– Albert Einstein (via reluctantbuddha)
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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha)
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The Fish That Was Thirsty
One night a baby fish was sleeping under some coral when God appeared to him in a dream. “I want you to go forth with a message to all the fish in the sea,” God said.
“What should I tell them?” the little fish asked. “Just tell them you’re thirsty,” God replied. “And see what they do.” Then without another word, He disappeared. The next...
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I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a...
– Michael Jackson to Ebony Magazine in December 1984
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One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy...
– Dean Koontz (via kari-shma)
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Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a...
– Michael Jackson (via 45degreelean)
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What I’m asking is whether this is still a country where a peculiar person such...
– Stephen King, Feb 2004 (via 45degreelean)
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What happened to truth? Did it go out of style?
– Michael Jackson (via 45degreelean)
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria,...
– Tennessee Williams
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Beguiling as those comparisons are between the extraterrestrial and Michael, the earthly, slightly spacey superstar, what may be most pertinently recalled about E.T. is the way in which the family’s house was suddenly closed by outside forces, turned from a home into a hermetically sealed fortress. Spielberg talks about the “rage” he senses when he watches Jackson in concert, and...
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Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as...
– Michael Jackson (via lovemj)
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In some ways Michael reminds me of the walking wounded. He’s an extremely...
– Jane Fonda on Michael Jackson (via 45degreelean)
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“The first time I saw E.T., I melted through the whole thing,” Michael says. “The second time, I cried like crazy. And then, in doing the narration, I felt like I was there with them, like behind a tree or something, watching everything that happened.”
So great was Michael’s emotional involvement that Steven Spielberg found his narrator crying in the darkened studio...