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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.

I think of Mike Myers as the Buster Keaton of today. I think he's brought us something so special.

I'm here today because I hated everything else.

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

How I was raised is what I am today.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

I have never been one to look beyond today.

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

It's just different today. Nobody seems to last too long these days. I wouldn't know how to get started today.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs.

The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio.

It is not very practical in today's world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

There are nearly 200 countries and a population of over 6 billion in today's world. International affairs should be addressed by all countries through consultations rather than monopolised by a few powers.

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

You have to travel globally today to know what's going on and maintain an edge.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

I was different from most young conductors today.

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

Today I would say, 'I am against plastic surgery.' It's a grave act. An act that touches our soul. It was frightening.

I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.

The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.

There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.