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And if that's what the American people want, then that's

what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd. Michael Scheuer Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Voltaire There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not. Lee R. Raymond To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Ogden Nash You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you. Robert Plant

I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's

kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life. Franka Potente Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine I've been reading horror since I was five years old. George Stephen Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. Jeremy Irons While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Francis of Assisi

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for

your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Tecumseh The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be. Max de Pree To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. William C. Bryant Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. Walter Gilbert I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. Sam Mendes

However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also

critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality. Ed Markey Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe. Bob Taft No one has ever drowned in sweat. Lou Holtz We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. Roy Jenkins I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing. Matthew Perry

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war

in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again. Zoe Lofgren Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. Giovanni Boccaccio The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. Barbara Ehrenreich All literature is political. LeVar Burton Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. Havelock Ellis

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy

yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England? John Masefield How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Arthur Conan Doyle The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. Jean Rostand I feel we are all islands - in a common sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. Bernard Meltzer

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned

to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors. Suzanne Fields All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. Anna Jameson I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know. Billie Holiday In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. Alex Grey A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. Robert Burton

They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the

creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three ceos - it takes one guy with an idea. Joe Grant I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes. Joan Chen It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. Thomas Jefferson There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. Seth Lloyd Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. James Russell Lowell

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as

miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. Elisha Gray When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?' Peter Bergman Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no! Taslima Nasrin Democracy is not about one party dominating. Ed Townsend There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down. Luke Wilson

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be

different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. Johnny Depp And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. George Chapman Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. Octavio Paz With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. Art Spiegelman You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen. Barry Levinson

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As

we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. J. Donald Walters As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. Federico Garcia Lorca Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost. Barry Williams My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done. Kelly Lynch Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. Tori Amos

I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know

that we can't talk about, so I'm perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III. Peter Mayhew Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. Francis Jeffrey More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. Robert Smith Surtees Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. W. G. Sebald

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do

Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could. Charlie Haden Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part. Bruce Davison Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you. Henry J. Kaiser Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. Myrtle Reed College is a refuge from hasty judgment. Robert Frost

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray

pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously. Wally Lamb We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together. Jerry Stiller Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. Baruch Spinoza I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. Edna St. Vincent Millay I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax. Ed Rendell

If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd

come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that. Rick Allen Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free. Andrea Dworkin In those days there was not so much pressure on us. Just Fontaine The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart. John Morley An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. John Ruskin

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even

honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile. Frederick Sanger We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets. Howard Barker It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. Huston Smith Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. Lord Byron

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything

I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.' Thomas Kinkade A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted. Andrew Bernstein The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. Ralph Nader Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea. William Weld I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside. Ken Dodd

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came

to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out. Mo Rocca A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that. Reggie Jackson The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical. George Crook America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning. Nelson Rockefeller Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. Friedrich Schiller

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no

armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. James Shirley Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs. Jack Welch Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. Andrei Sakharov Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image. Denis Waitley The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. Bryant H. McGill

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions

as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it. Peter Singer Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. Anne Sullivan Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. Matt Groening Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. George Bernard Shaw

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to

know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. Francois de La Rochefoucauld In business for yourself, not by yourself. William James The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing. Jimmy Rushing In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. Steve Reich I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me. Angelina Jolie

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria.

We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. Ben Okri I've been rapping since 1979. Coolio So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day. Duane G. Carey I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line. Daniel Clowes I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them. Earl Hines

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a

sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. John le Carre Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help. Ken Livingstone No one pays me to be nice. Aaron Allston I dated the same girl all through high school. Mark Hoppus Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself. Andy Garcia

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to

go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. Branch Rickey Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words. Zell Miller I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice. Catherine McCormack In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything. Lloyd Cutler I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. Mary Calderone

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was

just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age. Mike Judge A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. Saul Bellow I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. Michael Ondaatje The wish for healing has always been half of health. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The joke of our time is the suicide of intention. Theodor Adorno

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual

or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. Muhammad Iqbal I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate. Kenny Baker In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. Marie Louise Men of polite learning and a liberal education. Matthew Henry In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read. Peter Davison

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable

by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. Albert Bandura The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final. Vladimir Putin If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be. Bo Bennett Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs. Anthony Hecht It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing. Ken Jennings

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns

for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two. Anjelica Huston Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do. Wayne Dyer Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. Ludwig Wittgenstein Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development. Aleksander Kwasniewski I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that. Claire Bloom

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does

not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. Laura San Giacomo I'm the original take-orders girl. Judy Garland One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. Harold Coffin We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. Rem Koolhaas When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards. Dick Dale

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If

there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it. Ryan Gosling I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. Steven Wright Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Ultimately love is everything. M. Scott Peck My brother is an excellent songwriter, and I play guitar and drums. Jeremy London

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate

what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how. John Walsh It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college. Margaret Spellings When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese. Iris Chang I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that. Peter Krause Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow. Ambrose Bierce

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is

so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it? John Davidson It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. W. C. Fields My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself. Suzanne Vega Daring is not safe against daring men. Ovid What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. Gwendolyn Brooks

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This

is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. Carl Sagan In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. H. L. Mencken Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. Louis-Ferdinand Celine Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. Marian Anderson

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let

your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts. Joseph Lancaster I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. Edith Sitwell In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time. Suzanne Vega No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative. Lisa Marie Presley

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting

back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law. Iris Chang Confidence is a very fragile thing. Joe Montana We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. Calvin Coolidge And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me. Patricia Clarkson When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. Wilhelm Steinitz

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same

thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose. Yukihiro Matsumoto So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. Christopher Reeve We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. Bryan White One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. Michael J. Fox A man with a soul is not like every other man. Eugene Ionesco

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in

the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century. Tran Duc Luong I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. John Ashbery The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience. Herb Alpert I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for. William Wycherley To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. J. B. Priestley

Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest

areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health, which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru. Tracy Kidder To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. Alan Bleasdale Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot Country's hip; it's cool music. Ricky Skaggs Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English

institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. John Acton My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama. Fred Allen In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that. Theo de Raadt But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content. Anne Boyd Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. Guy Debord

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as

the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. Ed Smith More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right. Patricia Ireland We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm. Sol Wachtler Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. Mahatma Gandhi Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind. Mikhail Gorbachev

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are

now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend. William Whipple I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time. Johnny Rivers Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. Laurence Sterne So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. Ruben Blades The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me. Jimmy Rushing

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by

attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. M. Scott Peck Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem. Imran Khan Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it. Kenneth Edmonds

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my

autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity. Charles Colson I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf. Darrell Royal I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me. Karen Carpenter At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it. Tim Conway I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. Henry Miller

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position

in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. Elias Canetti Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end. Walt Disney I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive. Charles Stuart Calverley Money without brains is always dangerous. Napoleon Hill I write what's given me to write. Philip Levine

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay

to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around. Stevie Ray Vaughan My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing. Jennifer Lopez Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence. Brian Harris The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight. Golda Meir I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile. Buddy Guy

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that

disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men. John Strachan He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge. Daniel D. Palmer Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. Emo Philips The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living. Edward Forbes The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. Charlie Chaplin

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a

scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex. Seth Lloyd Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. James Allen Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered. Bob Barker Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer The government serves the people - not vice-versa. Joe Wilson

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had

better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had! John Hughes A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians. Susan Estrich I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me. Chuck Schumer I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. Patrick J. Kennedy Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed. Naveen Andrews

Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player

from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business. Luis Figo I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up. Dennis Wilson Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad. Christiane Amanpour Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. Quintilian

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts

me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. Kim Campbell Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. George William Curtis I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. Frederik Pohl Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. Laurie Anderson

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that

talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. Steven Pinker I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country. Princess Diana A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Kettering Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. Ernest Hemingway There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them. Aaron Allston

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the

way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. Seth Lloyd Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. H. L. Mencken Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. John Ruskin There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. Henry Miller Big words seldom accompany good deeds. Charlotte Whitton

It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg.

I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time. Dakota Fanning While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice. Gresham Barrett A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. Edmund Burke We are all cells in the same body of humanity. Peace Pilgrim

The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about

compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a 'public purpose.' Michael Kinsley I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. Robert Frost Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia. Betty Hill More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. Dennis Prager It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait. Douglas Feith

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed

be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. Michael N. Castle Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit. Bruce Dickinson Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. Robertson Davies The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. D. H. Lawrence Be larger than your task. Orison Swett Marden

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim

on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people. Mark Hatfield The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. Tony Blair If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. Tony Benn The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. Nicolaus Copernicus

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in

a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun. Gary Kemp Love is a serious mental disease. Plato Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. John Engler People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar. Rick Kaplan The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program

that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities. Major Owens Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming. Peter Mayhew Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves. Debra Wilson

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with

me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country. Harry Houdini I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan. Rick Allen Want of pluck shows want of blood. Virgil Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive. Sidney Hook Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. Leonard Cohen

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades,

and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. Abdelaziz Bouteflika You are what you love. Not what loves you. Charlie Kaufman To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight. Thomas Foran It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. Carl Jung Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. Thomas Aquinas

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to

repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd. Leonard Maltin There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life. Heather Mills Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. Wilkie Collins There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Dwight D. Eisenhower The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Dag Hammarskjold

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to

provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts. Herman Cain Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. Oprah Winfrey Everyone says I'm like the girl next door... Y'all must have really weird neighbors! Kelly Clarkson Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. Karl Shapiro

Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what

is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests. Elizabeth Dole Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. George Santayana My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. W. H. Auden There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art. John Galliano That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. Curtis LeMay

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know

that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser. Whittaker Chambers Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? Karl Kraus It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens. Richard Grimes It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens. Donna Tartt Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello. Ed Wood

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to

collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income. Ginny Brown-Waite I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones. Andres Serrano Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. Rudyard Kipling I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. D. H. Lawrence A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. Albert Pike

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do.

I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother. Ben Elton But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun. Shane West So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. Charles Evers A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Joseph Addison I have always loved going to school. Rudolph A. Marcus

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent

don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart. Tom Brady Movies are movies, television is television. Dirk Benedict They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. Terry Pratchett One of the things that you have trouble with politicians, particularly in Washington, is when you get mad at them and you can't touch them; you can't punch them; you can't yell at them. Frank Luntz We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything. Jay Roach

And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the

United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of. Duane G. Carey All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. John Quincy Adams Whoever can surprise well must conquer. John Paul Jones I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago. Wynonna Judd A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences. Jacques Maritain

I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're

going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where. Ted Strickland I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal. Jon Crosby To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. John Locke Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow. Bernard Cornwell

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others

come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation. Ansel Adams What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. William James Onstage, I was never the ingenue. Kristen Johnston Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Charles Baudelaire

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what

I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know. Sun Ra Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous. John Bonham Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again. Johnny Mercer All things must change to something new, to something strange. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities. Bill Richardson

As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of

liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong. Doc Hastings For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. Simone Weil Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. Joe Hill I perform for soldiers because they are important. Coolio Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. Bryant H. McGill

It's funny how sometimes how the public some people think I was born like this.

That I maybe I sleep and I do big muscle, but its a lot of work to look like this and to be in this kind of condition. Lou Ferrigno I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience. Maria Sharapova And muse on Nature with a poet's eye. Thomas Campbell The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. Havelock Ellis I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know? Matt LeBlanc

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