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All writers of the Chaldaean period associate monotheism in the closest way with unity of worship.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.

It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.