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叶下斜阳照水，卷轻浪、沉沉千里。

西园公子名无忌，南国佳人号莫愁。

丈夫生世会几时，安能蹀躞垂羽翼？

但屈指西风几时来，又不道、流年暗中偷换。

肠已断，泪难收。相思重上小红楼。

怕人寻问， 咽泪装欢。 瞒， 瞒， 瞒！

薄悻不来门半掩， 斜阳， 负你残春泪几行。

数声风笛离亭晚，君向潇湘我向秦。

欢笑情如旧，萧疏鬓已斑。

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落日松风起，还家草露晞。

菩提只向心觅，何劳向外求玄？

翠袖低垂笼玉笋，红裙斜曳露金莲。

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - it's authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.

I hate female men.

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

You should have mechanisms of communication, like faxes, which are obviously getting removed from offices because nobody uses them anymore. Faxes are great when e-mail doesn't work. I wouldn't be throwing them away.

Anything that I can do with my voice that's good, I'll try to do.

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

My favorite drink is a cocktail of carrot juice and whiskey. I am always drunk but I can see for miles.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.

We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous.

I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.

Cross platform, we have opportunity across all our businesses to not only take the most well-known and high-profile brands and bring them to life with the guidance of people who know them well, but to incubate new ones.

Photographers feel guilty that all they do for a living is press a button.

The original 'About Last Night' was phenomenal.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.