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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big

financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off. Barbara Boxer Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty. Sallust Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. Arnold Newman Men are the dreams of a shadow. Pindar I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom. Wanda Sykes

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more

of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. Tom Peters Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. Simone Weil We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed. Alfred Lord Tennyson I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me. Simone de Beauvoir Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. Robin G. Collingwood

And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out,

and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. Logan Pearsall Smith They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Boothe Luce Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland. Jinato Hu If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do. Kelly Lynch

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he

was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really. Jack Osbourne The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument. Max Roach Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way. Cliff Burton I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have. Sonny Rollins If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice. Benny Goodman

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the

limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them. Paul Gauguin I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes. George Eads I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly. Vince McMahon I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder. Craig Charles Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. Phil Crosby

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and

against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them. Hale White Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time. Cliff Richard When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. Lao Tzu No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. Channing Pollock Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped. James J. Corbett

There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing

with me. It never stops. The opportunity to reach new audiences with all of the music that we have made is thrilling. Graham Nash Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you. John Dykstra Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child. Pat Benatar The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. Edwin Powell Hubble But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me. Anne Hutchinson

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never

been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through. John Wozniak The only one who can beat me is me. Michael Johnson I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain. Gregory Peck We seek no wider war. William P. Bundy I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I don't know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras. June Allyson

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a

guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. Stevie Nicks Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening. Alexander Woollcott People just automatically say 'If this guy is George and Barbara Bush's son, we don't have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.' Robert Teeter Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. Roger Maris My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor. Karen Duffy

It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end

to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined. Josiah Warren I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises. Audrey Tautou We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it. Kim Il-sung Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home. Michael Phelps It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people. Louis Farrakhan

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when

you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible. Daryl Gates At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France. Karen Armstrong The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They've changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory. Spencer Abraham For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can. Ernest Hemingway We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing. William Watson

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of

wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. Marc Chagall The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. Martina Navratilova To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. Cecil Taylor I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time. Bill Wyman I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom. Joseph Hume

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us

from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. Eugene Ionesco Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it. Sean Paul Any time the president talks, you listen. Ben Nelson I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future. Arnold Schwarzenegger A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers. Arthur Hertzberg

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to

me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. Penelope Lively Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause. Adam Clayton The severity of the laws prevents their execution. Charles de Montesquieu Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied. Boris Trajkovski

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions.

Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord. Rahm Emanuel Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself. Robert Teeter Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art. Ansel Adams Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. Walter Gropius The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism. George Jean Nathan

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state

what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. Fiona Shaw There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! Percy Bysshe Shelley As for our majority... one is enough. Benjamin Disraeli Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing. Vance Havner Grinch had so many people in make up - virtually everybody. We had about 100 people a day for five months. And every day we would use 100 sets of appliances. Rick Baker

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and

farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. Brian Tracy Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. Tacitus I guess after you've been doing something for 20 plus years, you have to work to stay interested. Bruce Hornsby I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve. Lou Harrison Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it

for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants. Michael Dell The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour. Pat Cash We don't really have favorite positions. Its mostly just playing the game that we love. Ashley Olsen Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. John Henry Newman

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some

people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there. Will Wright An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage. Hosni Mubarak All great peoples are conservative. Thomas Carlyle It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest. Barry Mann Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. Ed Markey

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it

will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. William Bennett I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. Frank Murkowski Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days. Bill Griffith When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first! Donald Wills Douglas Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door? Tyra Banks

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me

remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. Comte de Lautreamont I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa? Marion Barry Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. Bud Abbott Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. Julia Cameron The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. George Santayana

Just with the basic one guitar, one piano and one vocal and an audience, I

think that the intimacy comes through more. People feel much more connected to the song because there's nothing in the way, and I actually enjoy doing that. Graham Nash Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. Louis Aragon When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. Stanley Crouch We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good. Sterling Marlin I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre. Jason Marsden

I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went,

'Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven't shown yet.' And I started kind of playing around with that side of things. Debbie Gibson Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. Colin Greenwood It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here? John Lennon I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career. Paul Gallagher Books, the children of the brain. Jonathan Swift

The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a

mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need. John Keegan Pop music should be about young people. Gary Kemp I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room. Mary Lou Williams Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy. Julia Phillips There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada. Wayne Rogers

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken

what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America. Jim Capaldi Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. Charles Stanley We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. Edward Dahlberg The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity. Abraham Kuyper Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. Emile M. Cioran

We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if

they're experiencing various symptoms and they're still in the active duty, they're less likely to come forward because that could result in their medical discharge. Bernie Sanders When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food. Barbara Boxer Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! St. Jerome Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson I never have reservations about doing anything as long as I'm being paid. Colin Baker

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find

out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong. Bill Scott No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician. James Harrington I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different? Donald Kagan One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility. William Petersen And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited. Betty Hill

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at

the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people. Garry Kasparov It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. Friedrich Nietzsche What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy. Dennis Miller I was a purist bore. Michael Parkinson Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. Eric Bentley

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are

unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. H. L. Mencken The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. H. G. Wells Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Bertrand Russell The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit. Saint Teresa of Avila The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Erich Fromm

I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are

at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme. Mike Gordon The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. Mahatma Gandhi I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. Barbara Hepworth Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. Edward Gibbon We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. Adam Schiff

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none

at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. Paul Klee Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period. Jimmy Carl Black I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school. Robert Evans He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Albert Einstein It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful

and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. Charles William Eliot Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. Frederick W. Smith We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. Black Kettle At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun. Nicolaus Copernicus It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. Alice Walker

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad.

There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes. Jon Crosby My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry. Roberto Benigni Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that. Edward Furlong He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message. Erika Eleniak It is much easier to become a father than to be one. Kent Nerburn

It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's

still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means. Daniel Clowes It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it. Paul Bryant All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. Honore de Balzac One chance is all you need. Jesse Owens As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. Andre Norton

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the

rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths. Mercedes Lackey It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens. Nigella Lawson That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. Aldous Huxley Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. Ogden Nash The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. Ambrose Bierce

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I

must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. Paul Kane The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me. Kirsten Dunst And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement. Mitchell Reiss You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. Lillian Gish

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great

restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine. Thomas Keller I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job. Ben Kingsley Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. Felix Klein I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it. Paul Gallagher I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want. John Galliano

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most

basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. George W. Bush When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. Al Capone All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. Napoleon Hill The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him. George Whitefield When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain

Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of

their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women. Reynolds Price It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. Richard Steele I really don't have a favorite course. I usually ask where there are the least players. Darrell Royal I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Mark Twain All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love. Morihei Ueshiba

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my

professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for. Eric Carle It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis. Anna Kournikova When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them. Ramakrishna In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity. Konrad Adenauer There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as

the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. Milan Kundera A pitcher is only as good as his legs. Early Wynn Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. Steve Prefontaine From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it. Beth Orton I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing. Natalie Portman

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous

chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. Emil Nolde I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did. Donna Mills I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week. Joe Tex It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. David Attenborough I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round. Brett Hull

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness

of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve. Henry Chadwick Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. C. P. Scott Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment. Neal Stephenson I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things. Deborah Bull I have a lot of fans who are people of color. I think, if nothing else, I kind of understand that sense of being on the outside looking in, culturally. Wes Craven

You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel

of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality. Amy Irving Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. Nicholas Sparks I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life. Jim Caviezel I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? Guru Nanak 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Lord Byron

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us,

unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. Stevie Ray Vaughan The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems. Michael Fish Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. Jose Ortega y Gasset I don't know if you've noticed it. But Duchamp was magnificent. Robert Barnes No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake. Walter Lang

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to

think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another. Jane Porter I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. Usher You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing. Emily Carr Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Mark Twain I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church. John Harvey Kellogg

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls

are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. Soren Kierkegaard Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table. William Powell Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. Ovid Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. Wayne Dyer Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember? Gregory Peck

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to

salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. Jacques Yves Cousteau Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad. Christina Rossetti Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. Richard Stallman My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world. Drew Barrymore When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life. Richard Lewis

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll

give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means. Henny Youngman Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. Wislawa Szymborska To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity. Frederick William Robertson As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway. Gerhard Schroder Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. Andrew Carnegie

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian

has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. Fred Allen Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. Mark Twain Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. Augustine Birrell I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin. Eddie Campbell The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious. John Fahey

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or

prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. Peter Singer Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information. Seth Lloyd No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. William Gilbert A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people. Bessie Head By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor. Charles A. Lockwood

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a

moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world. Richard Lugar I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. Kurt Cobain America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape. William Blum Many composers today don't know what the human throat is. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself. Joan Sutherland

I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of

instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you. Danielle Dax It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in. James Wolcott Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. Warren Bennis Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. Harold Coffin I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. Tyrone Power

The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The

Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society. Andrew Goodman Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. James A. Garfield Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere. Robert Anthony Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year. Edward Tufte Official truths are often powerful illusions. John Pilger

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to

jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump. Willem Dafoe A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it. Norah Jones Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe They always win who side with God. Frederick William Faber Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. J. B. Priestley

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in

virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small. Richard Mentor Johnson A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago. Jane Byrne My mother had morning sickness after I was born. Rodney Dangerfield A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. Arnold Bennett

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and

you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do. Suzanne Farrell For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms. William Gibson Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege. John Edward Christopher Hill Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say. Robert W. Service At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Raymond Chandler

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for

the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it. Sam Mendes Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio. Martin Milner I would rather have peace in the world than be President. Harry S Truman Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. Thomas Paine An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. Leo Rosten

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based

in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising. Jeff Koons One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life. Anne Morrow Lindbergh As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films. Johnny Ramone Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho Marx Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body. Ovid

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in

existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia. Daniel H. Hill I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter. Soleil Moon Frye The Rock will always come back to us. Vince McMahon Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you. Barry Hannah Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. Walt Disney

I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me

to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time. Peter Mayhew I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young. Cornelia Funke Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. John Hersey There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. Mario Batali The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular. Jay Leno

As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is

the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection. Henry Charles Carey I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway. Richard M. Daley There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet. James Daly Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. Quintilian Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds. David Attenborough

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a

happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. John Locke In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind. Charles Ives I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. Susan B. Anthony My education was an education by movies. Robert Benton I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone. Maggie Smith

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern

Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers. Mary Harris Jones Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. Jacques-Henri Lartigue Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's. Phyllis Schlafly If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win. Charles Caleb Colton

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error

in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. Ezra Pound No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Theodore Roosevelt There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. Cecil Beaton The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda. Heywood Broun

It means that, in fact, it's - whether fascist is the right word I don't

know - more of a plutocracy than anything resembling a democracy; it has become a nation controlled by a very small, very wealthy elite. Peter Singer The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow. Lee J. Cobb What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. Marcus Aurelius I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes. Fidel Castro Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. Antiphanes

I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about

deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not. Carrie Underwood Country is not what you heard on the Grammys. Crystal Gayle War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. Niccolo Machiavelli When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. Walt Disney I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. Yehudi Menuhin

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4

million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now. John Mayer All things come round to him who will but wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired. Robert Strauss We are not the sum of our possessions. George H. W. Bush We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. Zoltan Kodaly

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do

the best of their ability to show and prove the depth, life, newness, creativity, truth and excitement of their Heavenly Father through the work that is set before them. Daniel Smith So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do. Jackie Cooper You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way! Tre Cool When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. William Feather To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. Gail Sheehy

Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending

eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr. Cassandra Peterson Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Gustave Flaubert It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. Thomas Carlyle What do you expect me to do about it? John Dillinger The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. Emmeline Pankhurst

Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where

I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different. Mark Rydell Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within. Phyllis Bottome We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions. Les Paul What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! Terence Reason in man is rather like God in the world. Thomas Aquinas

People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you

must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are. Marion Barry Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test. Herb Elliott There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. Nina Simone It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. Wayne Dyer Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. Mary Roberts Rinehart

Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're

just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world. Tito Jackson War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. Ludwig von Mises I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die. Antonio Gramsci I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough. Shirley Bassey Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. Elbert Hubbard

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help

of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. Pope Gregory VII Actors really should be tramps. Martin Milner Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. William S. Burroughs A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. John Churton Collins When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that? Jimmy Carl Black

I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane.

I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in the back of the airplane. But we know that doesn't happen, not with those sorts of things. Ted Olson The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. Ben Hogan Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? Herman Melville Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been

improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance. Mary C. Jones One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line. William J. Clinton Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. Grover Cleveland Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. Yahoo Serious In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city,

with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. W. Somerset Maugham I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly. Jeff Gannon But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress. Amy Sedaris The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. A. J. P. Taylor I should be getting photographs of me with my arm around these people like restaurant owners do, because eventually I am going to have to prove to my kids that once I was an actor! Josh Hartnett

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue

from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for. Peter Benenson Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. Fran Lebowitz Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door. Charles M. Schulz We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any. Nikolai Gogol There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. E. B. White

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an

unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close. Anders Fogh Rasmussen Science is what scientists do. Dennis Flanagan I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently. Judith Light Keep what you have; the known evil is best. Plautus But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom. Rachel Griffiths

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous

social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern. Amir Butler Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies. Helen Mirren If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. Joseph Stalin If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. Hippocrates I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. Noel Coward

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow,

and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. Tom Brown, Jr. Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. Baltasar Gracian Uncommon valor was a common virtue. Chester W. Nimitz We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. Ruth Benedict What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. Stanley Crouch

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education

the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done. Timothy Thomas Fortune The old Fleetwood Mac was much better; they did some beautiful and, to my mind, very authentic blues. Chicken Shack did pretty well in Europe, but after I left, it was over. Christine McVie It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. Antonin Artaud I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice. Sasha Cohen Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine

If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make

the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive. James E. Rogers Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. Martin Amis What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road. Robert H. Schuller You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. John Lennon Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord. Swami Sivananda

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can

go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. Gerald R. Ford Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers. Samuel Smiles Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself. Basil Bunting Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice. Michael N. Castle Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way. Victoria Pratt

Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for

governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.' Jimmy Fallon The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. Hosea Ballou Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains. Coco Chanel 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. Martha Graham Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually. Guido van Rossum

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going

hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue. Blanche Lincoln Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. Franklin P. Jones It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. Steve Winwood Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. Friedrich Nietzsche But it's not just a game of finding literary references. Dan Simmons

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually

led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. Daniel Ortega I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Robert Green Ingersoll Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther. Edwin Arlington Robinson I played by the rules of politics as I found them. Richard M. Nixon The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness. Timothy Thomas Fortune

There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone.

We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families. Mary Crosby I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more. Trent Reznor No emancipation without that of society. Theodor Adorno I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well. Kenneth Lay We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what

kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game. Roy Clark Be happy. It's one way of being wise. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. Phyllis Schlafly Enough research will tend to support your conclusions. Arthur Bloch I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other. Steve Reich

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger

first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. Hans Berger For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband. Tammy Bruce It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance. Baldwin Spencer I don't like cheap shots, I really don't. Susan Estrich A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar. Sean Booth

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts

raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that? Rush Limbaugh Mechanization best serves mediocrity. Frank Lloyd Wright The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Julius Charles Hare Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson Judges don't age; time decorates them. Enid Bagnold

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects

of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis. William Jackson I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. James Ellroy Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today. Maxwell Maltz A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point. Shiri Appleby

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I

started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love. Jack Bruce Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. George W. Bush I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. Winston Churchill After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years. Alphonso Jackson My favourite thing is to go where I've never been. Diane Arbus

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and

the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. Mark Hopkins I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things. Jackie Kennedy Courage is always the surest wisdom. Wilfred Grenfell Devaluations are never easy. Jeffrey Sachs Society therefore is as ancient as the world. Voltaire

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give

people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb. Sandra Oh The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. Alice James I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. Charles Darwin I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake. Michelle Shocked I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'. Barbara Boxer

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence

briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?' Bill Maher The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven. Francis Thompson The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking. Samuel Johnson It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another. John Forbes Nash, Jr.

If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any

certain issue, that's reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they - the Administration - believe. Jeff Gannon I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. Arthur C. Clarke The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason. Jane Byrne It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry. Martina McBride All you must do is accept all that is unacceptable to you. Cheri Huber

While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what

they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with. William Odom Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing. James Galway My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. Kenneth Joseph Arrow As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. Tom Ford Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. Satchel Paige

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play

in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet. Sue Kelly If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good. Colin Baker The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. Bill Forsyth I always ignore money. Damien Hirst Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution. Bill Condon

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball

include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right. Michael Lewis No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will. Euripides I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Khalil Gibran He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Henry Ward Beecher In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden. Tom Allen

Most horror films fail to scare me. I think 'The Ring' plays more as a

psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper. Martin Henderson There is a tendency for things to right themselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun. John Glover You can't eat your friends and have them too. Budd Schulberg The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli

Send it to someone who can publish it. And if they won't publish it, send

it to someone else who can publish it! And keep sending it! Of course, if no one will publish it, at that point you might want to think about doing something other than writing. Robert B. Parker There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it. Andrew Jackson Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. Samuel Johnson Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. Samuel Butler God owns heaven but He craves the earth. Anne Sexton

The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to

play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that. Oscar Peterson At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada. John Strachan I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew. Lizzie Andrew Borden Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. Alden Nowlan Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living. Donald Davis

If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work

for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs. Barbara Boxer I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. James Van Der Beek People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. Oliver Goldsmith I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. Calvin Trillin No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. Francis of Assisi

Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were

both musicians and so I'm a musician. It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family. Sam Rivers Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow. Ellen DeGeneres Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part. Elgin Baylor I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life. Charlie Haden It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words. William Moulton Marston

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions:

1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. Ezra Stiles All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood. Rainer Maria Rilke This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. Lord Byron When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move. Michael Douglas Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell

'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game

and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments. Randy West Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. H. G. Wells I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. John D. Rockefeller If I can bicycle, I bicycle. David Attenborough America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people. Nancy Pelosi

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the

country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. Nicholas Sparks I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam. Richard Price Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it. Phyllis Schlafly Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. Cullen Hightower The Internet's kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged. Sean Booth

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist

acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. Hussein of Jordan Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy. Alexis Herman Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. Winston Churchill Well, the future of the Internet is... Reality. Daniel Keys Moran The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test. Karl Kraus

I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my

contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive. Damon Hill The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. William Dean Howells The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy. Billy Barty There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. Blaise Pascal Grace in women has more effect than beauty. William Hazlitt

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and

going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you. Kent Nerburn The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe. Philip Warren Anderson I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road. Archie Moore The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my feelings and affections; and more especially so after I had quitted it for an unknown place, and to associate with strangers. John Britton This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex. Dan Rather

And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it

ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public. Richard Serra Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. Orison Swett Marden Being a barber is about taking care of the people. Anthony Hamilton The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Joseph Joubert Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. Mary Baker Eddy

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to

'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next. Bruce Schneier I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. Sam Neill For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. Charles Baudelaire Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. Ronald Reagan Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people

here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. George Washington Carver I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives. Charles Hamilton Houston It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night. Daniel Johns Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race. Tim Bishop

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious

life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. Al Franken I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. Thomas Merton A hero is a man who does what he can. Romain Rolland The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor. Fiona Shaw I think quotes are very dangerous things. Kate Bush

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that

I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. Richard Price I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. Ludwig Wittgenstein For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation. Utada Hikaru In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. William Wordsworth I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination. Billy Sherwood

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals.

When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. Mary Wesley There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed. Ricky Schroder I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that. Campbell Scott People who produce good results feel good about themselves. Ken Blanchard Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and

my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing. Oded Fehr My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. Lord Byron I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible. Beau Bridges If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife. Ann Landers God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.' Billy Graham

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and

hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting. Gabrielle Union A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I have a picture of an ideal consciousness. Henry Flynt Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. Henry Ward Beecher In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig. Dave Blood

I guess what bothers me so much about what I now see going on in

both Washington and in Texas is an effort to keep people from finding out about the mistakes of lawmakers and then when they're uncovered, an effort to fool people and pretend there was nothing wrong. Chris Bell That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. Doris Kearns Goodwin There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. John Dryden A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. Walter Savage Landor The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. Vladimir Lenin

A Christian people who have for two hundred years kept a race in bondage, deprived

of the advantages of civilization and religion, owe them a debt of gratitude which it would seem ungenerous to withhold. Nelson A. Miles There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics. Trip Hawkins I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Abraham Lincoln Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions. Friedrich Nietzsche If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win. Max Burns

This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he

be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton. Robert Teeter There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. Thomas Mann Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. Aristotle Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order. Hans Kung The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked. Roger Angell

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have

to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content. John Dykstra Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. Charles Peguy And I used to listen to a lot of jazz. Debra Wilson They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it. Craig T. Nelson Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present. Richard G. Scott

I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want

to be a vagabond, so to speak, and be traveling from team to team, year in and year out. I'm not that type of guy. I like to be settled. Jeff Garcia Judicious absence is a weapon. Charles Reade They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. William Congreve I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses. Kenneth Lay Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. Andrew Young

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a

tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty. Frank Luntz We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future. John F. Kennedy In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. Cynthia Ozick I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else. Donna Mills Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. Frances E. Willard

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put

pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region. Orrin Hatch I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope. Marg Helgenberger I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton. Jack Bruce Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me. Terry Fox I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing. Richard Wagner

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So

it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. Jim Bolger There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. William Cobbett Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born. Fiona Shaw I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward. Michael Bergin

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government

is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. Harry S Truman I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that. Michael Badnarik A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding. Isaac Newton One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. Robert Collier

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with

the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. Erich Fromm Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. Charles Williams I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious. Sadie Frost What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? Emile M. Cioran If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a

true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. Johann Arndt Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing. Frankie Avalon Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together. Melanie Brown Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us. Robin Gibb If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener. Jared Harris

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