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The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I

am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place? Kathleen Battle When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control. Donald Rumsfeld I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good. Claire Bloom India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it. Gary Ackerman You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel. Michael Ondaatje I always knew, that in some way, I'd be connected to, and involved in, the music business. Jeff Healey To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl S. Buck Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They

lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. Rudolf Otto I am still learning. Michelangelo History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. Robert Johnson The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. William Petty I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well. Debra Wilson The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill. Joe Williams Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means. Tim LaHaye Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't? Bonnie Hunt

The tree was evidently aged, from the size of its stem. It was about six

feet high, the branches came out from the stem in a regular and symmetrical manner, and it had all the appearance of a tree in miniature. Robert Fortune Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. Thomas Aquinas The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery. George Voinovich Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about. Hildegard Knef I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished. Barbet Schroeder My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble. Bill Rodgers In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. Lord Byron I'm drowning in papers. Wislawa Szymborska

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real

and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong. Ted Kulongoski Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act. Alice Meynell One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. John Stuart Mill I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. Alan Hovhaness When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. Tacitus Greetings and death to our enemies. Dan Aykroyd Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. Vladimir Nabokov Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived. Sylvester Stallone

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all

sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal. Michael Giles I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. Robert Englund Overnight I became a cottage industry. Jean Harris There's no hope of me becoming completely relaxed on stage. If I did, I'd sit down and doze off. Robert Smith I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing. O. Winston Link The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart. Mahatma Gandhi The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done. Daniel Johns Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. Sigmund Freud

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to

demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable. Peter Mandelson Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. Frank Langella I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract. Paul Ince Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr. I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. Thomas Jefferson If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him? Oskar Schindler It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Arthur Conan Doyle I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. Christina Milian

Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you

do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public domain or shareware software should never be placed in the root directory. John McAfee They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short. Al Lopez To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless. Ted Turner The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. Voltaire I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit. Jiang Qing Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious. Ben Affleck A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. Ruben Blades Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. H. G. Wells

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy

sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. Joseph Conrad What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow. Mary Harris Jones If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. Elgin Baylor The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me. Sun Myung Moon We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one. Rupert Grint Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry? Kirsten Dunst The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool. George Santayana Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops. Brendan Behan

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their

language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands? Joseph Howe I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it. Johnny Depp A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. Gerald Jampolsky On a personal level, we all get along fine. Alex Van Halen Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. Keri Russell The guilty think all talk is of themselves. Geoffrey Chaucer Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions. Nikolai Gogol Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Timothy McVeigh

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. Gary Ryan Blair Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. G. Gordon Liddy Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people. Kim Campbell Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. Anne Wilson Schaef Postmodernism cost literature its audience. Scott Turow People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards. Pat Riley I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. Thomas Keller Change of weather is the discourse of fools. Thomas Fuller

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the

profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. Ray Davies I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides. Thomas Haden Church My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. Ferdinand Foch We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government. Arnold Schwarzenegger The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do. Richard M. DeVos The perception of beauty is a moral test. Henry David Thoreau I always root for the defense. Wellington Mara The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. Scott Turow

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater

trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog. Jeff Koons I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again. Jason Statham If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. Hugh Prather Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. Alexander Pope The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. Theodore Roosevelt All my knowledge comes from research. Stan Sakai Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end? Tom Stoppard

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life

of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about. David Attenborough Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. Baltasar Gracian Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses. Richard King If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly. Bernard Law Montgomery Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance. Alex Rodriguez Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician. Pierre Bourdieu There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life. Natalie Portman Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. Warren Bennis

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and

for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about. Jared Diamond It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual. Oswald Chambers The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies. Jason Statham I've had it. I did 4,700 episodes. Isn't that enough? Monty Hall None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in. Wanda Jackson My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough. Hugo Claus Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Arnold Bennett I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. Muhammad Iqbal

We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist

acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims. Ali Khamenei A friend is worth all hazards we can run. Edward Young I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. Glynis Johns The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. George Bernard Shaw It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled. Joey Skaggs Silence is refreshment for the soul. Wynonna Judd Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody. Malcolm Forbes I'd like to go to Brazil I think. Do a little South America trip. Kristanna Loken

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it

is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. Georges Bernanos My life has been nothing but a failure. Claude Monet It's just good to be back in the locker room. William Green I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone. Susie Bright There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. Henri Frederic Amiel Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore. Guru Nanak My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals. Sebastian Bach Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you. Emmet Fox

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential

program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. Donald Rumsfeld I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. John Ashbery Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. Kris Kristofferson Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Lord Byron If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive. Catherine Keener We call first truths those we discover after all the others. Albert Camus One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. William Arthur Ward

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the

moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free. Swami Vivekananda Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer. Donald Rumsfeld Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. Henry Ward Beecher My art became very public. Joey Skaggs I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. Muhammad Iqbal God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. Mahatma Gandhi Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing. Clark Gable The newest books are those that never grow old. Logan Pearsall Smith

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're

all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect. Charlie Haden What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural. George Stephen There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline. George S. Patton Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. Georges Jacques Danton Whatever ought to be, can be. James Rouse All those men have their price. Robert Walpole Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live

not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. Marcel Proust The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Joseph Conrad I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff. Piper Laurie Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes. Roger Penrose The films that I do tend to polarise people's views. Alan Parker All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. Christopher Marlowe Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet. Morris Chestnut Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that

part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language. John Pilger I ended the war a horse ahead. Nathan Bedford Forrest I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense. Don Nickles Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. Louis Kahn We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. Martin Luther King, Jr. Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernard Berenson Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. John Denham In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. Thornton Wilder

I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great

when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh. Luke Wilson Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. John Heywood All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Spike Milligan We, too, must change as circumstances evolve. Baldwin Spencer America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. Allen Ginsberg We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks. Eden Phillpotts If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job. Tom Landry They that have lived a single day have lived an age. Jean de la Bruyere

We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could

advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did. Paul Nitze In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world. Omar Bongo You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. Charles Ives I shall always be a priest of love. D. H. Lawrence I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one. Brigitte Bardot Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. Albert Schweitzer An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. Kin Hubbard It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If

the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either. Jeff Tweedy On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public. Betty Hill Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. Denis Waitley If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. Benjamin Franklin If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. Count Basie Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. Orison Swett Marden History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. Enoch Powell

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling,

it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too. Richard Attenborough It may be those who do most, dream most. Stephen Leacock As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. Bo Bennett While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. Herbie Hancock The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. Voltaire I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. Frank B. Kellogg Actors are responsible to the people we play. Philip Seymour Hoffman

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of

weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. Barbara Bush Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. Euripides I had no occasion for an apron on that morning. Lizzie Andrew Borden Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently. Karen Duffy I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools. Estelle Morris A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. Pindar I can only go one way. I've not got a reverse gear. Tony Blair Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. Pierre de Coubertin

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the

kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. David Duchovny Liberty has restraints but no frontiers. David Lloyd George The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. Oscar Wilde Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter. Lee Scott In love's godlike breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe. Alexander Scriabin All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. Cleopatra Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. Ezra Pound Drugs won't enhance your performance. Morgan Brittany

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage

was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. Stockwell Day To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. Wilson Mizner The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car. Will Durst All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. Lao Tzu I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me. Izabella Scorupco Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target. Phil Bredesen You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. Walt Disney

My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and

farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked. Andy Garcia Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded. Vicente Fox If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest. George Gurdjieff A mother who is really a mother is never free. Honore de Balzac A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. Alan Perlis Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it. Bill Toomey Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. Blaise Pascal Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. Quentin Tarantino

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution

or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000. Emile Lahoud Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people. Ray Harryhausen There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes. Amelia Barr Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us. Roger Sherman Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it. Bill Terry I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better. Dennis Quaid

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor

to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by the gracious inspiration and instigation of the Holy Spirit of God. Roger Williams Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. Christina Rossetti Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Ronald Reagan Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. Thomas Gray No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine. Thomas Keller So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. Marcus Tullius Cicero With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go. Murray Walker I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. Themistocles

I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know

my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat. Bart Stupak A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it. Dusty Springfield Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys. Kristin Scott Thomas I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time. Bette Midler I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. John Cheever We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss. Bernard Ebbers An actors' tribute to me is in his work. Lee Strasberg To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight. Sydney Smith

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do

not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it. John Sharp Williams There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. Eric Hoffer Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. Solon God requireth not a uniformity of religion. Roger Williams Sexual underwear is tacky. Izabella Scorupco I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't. Edward Furlong Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. David Hume Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him:

it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. Charles Kendall Adams No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does. Anita Brookner It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive James I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. Nancy Reagan When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America. Warren Beatty I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes. Scott Caan All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it. Kelly Lynch

We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be

to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens. Barbara Boxer He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. Abu Bakr The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime. Edward Tufte How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals. Sarah Michelle Gellar Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. James Russell Lowell It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. William Cowper Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer. Lori Loughlin Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. William Shakespeare

That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but

there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions. Stephen Harper When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick. Kathy Najimy The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. William Temple I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us. Maynard James Keenan Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. Albert Schweitzer The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. Stanley Milgram Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful. Dale Evans I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. Edward Tufte

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's

a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are. Tito Jackson I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. Bob Dylan Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races. Ellsworth Huntington Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? Emile M. Cioran Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Anna Sewell I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. Thomas Jefferson He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. Xenophon Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. Tom Kite

Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation

has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq. Elizabeth Dole As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting. Sue Johanson I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. Woody Allen Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. Thomas W. Higginson The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric. Virginia Foxx People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves. Tryon Edwards Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics. Ron Reagan

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be

very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. Fiona Shaw I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects. Patricia Velasquez Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. Edward Young To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. John James Audubon If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is. Greta Garbo I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism. Trevor Dunn One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country. Danny Glover Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. John McCarthy

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to

death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully? Debra Winger I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. Clarence Darrow To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give. Tristan Bernard Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict. Wayne Allard Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. Tanith Lee Human history in essence is the history of ideas. H. G. Wells Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. Rudolph A. Marcus Believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where

we need to go, and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act. Dave Freudenthal I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. James Worthy Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved. Kevin Smith Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. Irene Peter I've got a great place, it's a country house. Lita Ford If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. Leo Strauss The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't. Fay Vincent There are no lazy veteran lion hunters. Norman Ralph Augustine

It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the

other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously. Laura Linney I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end. George Phillips Bond I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. Sam Mendes Keep violence in the mind where it belongs. Brian Aldiss Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Baruch Spinoza Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest. Joe E. Lewis I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation. William Odom

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think

that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do. John le Carre Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. Steven Weinberg Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. Jimmy Breslin I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women. Lita Ford Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter. Emile M. Cioran I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover. Paul Muni But I did that, and I created another blues scene, another something I can sing about. Luther Allison

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When

the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion. John Sununu I can wrap my legs around my neck. Janice Dickinson OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do? Teena Marie We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. Virginia Woolf All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. Wislawa Szymborska You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. Bob Dylan The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? Elizabeth Moon

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the

sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. Herman Hesse There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap. Kevin James Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. John Fowles Ideals are the world's masters. Josiah Gilbert Holland Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it. Ann Coulter The better day, the worse deed. Matthew Henry If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. Richard Bach Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. Benjamin Franklin

Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our

country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive. Mary Whitehouse We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. Penelope Lively I don't want the federal government to rush in and bail the out right away. Dennis Moore A closed mind is a dying mind. Edna Ferber I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life. Lauren Graham The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. Mitch McConnell We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. Frank Moore Colby It's better when they laugh, isn't it? Lorne Michaels

On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the

war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president. Lincoln Chafee Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion. Charles Colson If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? Christiane Amanpour Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing. Johnny Depp Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. Marcus Valerius Martial They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks. Andy Van Slyke He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Herman Melville Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal. Voltaire

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems

are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. Walter Cronkite Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. Thomas de Quincey You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children. Pablo Casals The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. Ed Koch Variety is the soul of pleasure. Aphra Behn A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none. Joseph de Maistre Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus

The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of

implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. Charles Bass I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family. Jerry Lawler The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. John le Carre I think everything depends on money. Alan Bean Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. Andy Goldsworthy There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. Gerald Massey I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. Douglas Feith Suspense is worse than disappointment. Robert Burns

But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I

will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing. Jay Roach This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles. Bob Richards At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it. Krista Allen We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding. Mary-Kate Olsen The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind. Dizzy Dean Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. Christoph Martin Wieland I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it. Steve Prefontaine

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that

there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies. Peter Lynch A person dishonored is worst than dead. Miguel de Cervantes Good rock music always tends to be around. Dave Davies A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. Michael LeBoeuf True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break. Edward Dyer Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. Francis Atterbury I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. Kelly Clarkson

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of

heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Bette Davis And I can do the rock clubs if I have to. Luther Allison Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. Jimi Hendrix Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C. Geoff Davis I liked roaming around by myself. Jimmy Rushing Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession. Joan D. Vinge Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. Henry David Thoreau Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe. Annie Jump Cannon

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or

a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. Michael Gartner There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never! Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. Ann Richards Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. Marc Chagall We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice. Marc Maron Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. Stella Benson We love your adherence to democratic principles. William F. Buckley, Jr.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as

I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue. David Hyde Pierce All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact. Herbert Simon I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. Harper Lee It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late. Michael Chabon I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing. Dean Cain If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. James Whistler Where there is a will there is a lawsuit. Addison Mizner The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter. Ed Markey

I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know

that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there. Ted Olson How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. Olive Schreiner Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. Finley Peter Dunne In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression. Wanda Sykes The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. Phil Knight The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Arthur Wellesley You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way. Barbara Bush Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. Alan Lakein

So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't

in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents. Steven Pinker The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home. Michael K. Powell Love without conversation is impossible. Mortimer Adler Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. Samuel Gompers I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it. Kirk Cameron Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe. Charles Davenport Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. Dave Barry I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling. Rachel Griffiths

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her

face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. E. M. Forster I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on. George Clooney I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test. Robert Fulghum I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man. Dwight L. Moody I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes. Robert Cray I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak. Joshua Leonard I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you. Paul Butterfield He preaches well that lives well. Miguel de Cervantes

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct

contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better. Alain Prost Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life. Donna Tartt Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. Logan Pearsall Smith These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way. Marilyn Manson What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good. Susan George You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression. Norman Rockwell If poverty were a man, I would have slain him. Ali ibn Abi Talib I grow old learning something new every day. Solon

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on

a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner. Walt Disney Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. Abu Bakr Social Security is an extremely complicated program. John Thune You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow. Amy Lowell I want my flowers while I'm alive. Chubby Checker People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly. David Hyde Pierce Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. Anwar Sadat Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor. Sebastian Bach

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of

being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. Mother Teresa And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. Henri Bergson Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers. Steve Carlton Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. Thomas Carlyle Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. Matthew Prior Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or

Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. John Forbes Nash, Jr. True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind. Just Fontaine Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. Joseph A. Schumpeter Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover No one is ever ordinary. Tanith Lee Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Michael Moore

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort

in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. David Viscott If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. Barack Obama This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career. Treat Williams I do Skid Row every night. Sebastian Bach Jim, I'm not aware of any formal requests from the Senate Judiciary Committee for these kinds of documents. Alberto Gonzales Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. Euripides I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships. Brian McBride I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies. Julia Roberts

I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has

exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit. Mark Ruffalo In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail. Major Taylor The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head. Helen Rowland In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. Robert Wyatt Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. Phil Ochs A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. Thomas Fuller It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. Barry Gibb Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. Victor Hugo

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The

Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much. Jimmy Carl Black Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. Ernest Rutherford They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square. Willie Stargell Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway. Isabelle Holland Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. C. Northcote Parkinson Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. Winston Churchill You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there. Bea Arthur

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a

purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11. Bill Frist If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. George Brett It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal. Pierre Laval Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside. William E. Geist Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. Russell Baker Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. William James Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. Dean Koontz I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Garrison Keillor

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for

the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be. Charlie Daniels Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. Jimmy Carter I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. Muriel Spark The view only changes for the lead dog. Norman O. Brown Ye are brothers, ye are men, and we conquer but to save. Thomas Campbell Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Winston Churchill Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am. Craig Bruce That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it. Kathy Griffin

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want

to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway. Ben McKenzie I don't know if there was even a hundred million dollars in the whole country! Sylvia Sidney On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. Virginia Woolf Don't let other people tell you what you want. Pat Riley Life is to be entered upon with courage. Alexis de Tocqueville The stage was our school, our home, our life. Lillian Gish By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities. Harrison Salisbury Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. Nikos Kazantzakis

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its

failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. Bob Feller I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. Daniel Boone The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. Martha Washington I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. Theodore Roosevelt The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty. Jeffrey Sachs The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. E. W. Howe You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. Stevie Nicks

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side

of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. Parker Posey I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile. Alan Alda Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to. Joe Lieberman Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it. William Ellery Channing Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. Rudy Giuliani I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world. Angelina Jolie I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. Henry Ford I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting. Shiri Appleby

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius,

who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. Joseph Addison It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. Antoine Rivarol The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. Luc de Clapiers When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process. Ginny Brown-Waite I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. Jeannette Walls Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. King Solomon OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy! Patricia Velasquez We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year. Izabella Scorupco

Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went

from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything. Jonathan Bennett Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. Alexander Pope We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set. Peter Farrelly It's more than a game. It's an institution. Thomas Hughes If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. John Bunyan An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them. Duke of Wellington Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still. Calvin Coolidge It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. Aeschylus

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And

all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. Richard Petty Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later. Richard E. Grant At this year's Open, I'll have five boyfriends. Anna Kournikova You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. Rae Dawn Chong Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight. Liam Gallagher Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country. Dan Rather Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. William Wordsworth I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do. Nigella Lawson

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows

and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. Emmitt Smith Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. Voltaire Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble. Roger Tory Peterson It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show. Daisy Berkowitz And, I was really impressed with how beautiful our country was and how friendly the people were. Duane G. Carey A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. Paul Scofield A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique. Goran Persson Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. Ambrose Bierce

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are

wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. Michael Lewis In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. John Carpenter One sword keeps another in the sheath. George Herbert The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. E. M. Forster Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. William Godwin Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. Sebastian Bach Hierarchy works well in a stable environment. Mary Douglas

I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan

will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future. Howard Baker I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. Vita Sackville-West The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. Richard Cecil Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. Coco Chanel I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy. Henry Darrow God is a frequency. Stay tuned. Alan Cohen Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. Francis Quarles Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. Charles Caleb Colton

When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they

are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose. Abdullah II of Jordan What is now proved was once only imagined. William Blake Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. Aristophanes Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Ludwig van Beethoven You can't eat fish. It's 6,000 parts DDT per million all over the world, not counting radiation. Dick Dale I don't limit myself. Emeril Lagasse The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. David Ogilvy For too many, to work means having less income. Kim Campbell

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible

to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. Mary Wortley Montagu I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp. Sonny Perdue Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. Lou Brock Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. Robert Louis Stevenson He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable. Thomas Babington Macaulay There is no caste in blood. Edwin Arnold Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. Henry Adams Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. Joan Rivers

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis

of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. Eric Allin Cornell What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Jean Paul Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. Katharine Anthony There are no friends at cards or world politics. Finley Peter Dunne Fear is the mother of foresight. Thomas Hardy Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. George A. Moore Headlines twice the size of the events. John Galsworthy You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert. Denis Waitley

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a

hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. Margot Asquith It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. Albert Einstein I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it. Potter Stewart Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. Publilius Syrus The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. Fyodor Dostoevsky Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' Jef I. Richards Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music. Keith Sweat

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better

health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. John Warnock Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. James Bryce God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire There are few successful adults who were not first successful children. Alexander Chase There is no turning back. Hugo Chavez On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me. Rodney Dangerfield You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. Sydney Pollack The greatest possession is self-possession. Ethel Watts Mumford

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make

any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties. Arnold Schwarzenegger The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. Merle Shain I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore. Olivia Newton-John God is a challenge because there is no proof of his existence and therefore the search must continue. Donald Knuth I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic. Christopher Atkins A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. Bram Stoker One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development. Frank Murkowski I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself. Beth Orton

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then

the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith Sunday school don't make you cool forever. Sly Stone Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. Charles Lamb Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. George William Russell I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit. Steve Carlton I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems. Donald M. Payne It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. Anne Baxter No one had to worry about Peter after his conversion. Your investigators can be that converted. Richard G. Scott

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the

English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. Thomas Erskine I'm very close to the pro-life movement. Roger Mahony I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am. Dana Plato I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally. Graham Nash Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. William James The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. Jean de la Bruyere Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory. Miguel de Cervantes It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. Spike Milligan

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came

back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well. Frank Scott Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?' Peter Malkin In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note. William Billings I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business. Mila Kunis Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. Torquato Tasso You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. William Henry Hudson If we cannot agree, then at least we ought to move on. Ben Nelson Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an

actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. David Duchovny Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice. Neil Finn I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist. Pam Grier To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. Maria Montessori There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. Ovid The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. James G. Frazer I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. Tim Vine It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought. Scipio Africanus

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing

being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. Jonathan Edwards He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Pablo Picasso A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. Thomas Carlyle Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. Kristin Scott Thomas All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right. Jack Kevorkian If today was half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was. Norman Ralph Augustine We're not trying to change the world; just music. Jonathan Davis

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by,

this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people. Kevin Ayers A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Suzanne Vega First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. James McBride Schizophrenia demons live in my head. Wesley Willis You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle. William J. Clinton Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. Walter Lang It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. Graham Greene The universe is transformation: life is opinion. Marcus Aurelius

I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're

guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on. Jim Courier I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes. Harold Budd Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller Trust everybody, but cut the cards. Finley Peter Dunne What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry People who dream of something bigger and better are good role models. Andrew Shue Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. E. W. Howe The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. Harvey S. Firestone

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not

connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right. Steve Harvey Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. Gale Norton He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. Confucius All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo. Robert Vaughn In fact, people have been very complimentary about my act and very tolerant of my singing ability. Brett Somers When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is. Charlotte Lennox To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in. Doris Lilly

It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign

autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are. Christina Aguilera The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap. Aaron Allston If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back. Stephanie Zimbalist The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. Reynolds Price Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself. James Lee Burke I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time. Greer Garson We try to recruit good players and good people. Tim Buckley Taste may change, but inclination never. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers,

sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. Marguerite Young Above anything else, I hate to lose. Jackie Robinson I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once. Jay Mohr No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Harriet Beecher Stowe So you see, movies are really another dimension. Cecilia Bartoli I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it. Gertrude Stein Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is. David Allan Coe The easy answer is that writing novels is a lot more fun than practicing law. Jeffery Deaver

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't

know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. Arnold Schoenberg Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. Gail Sheehy You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot. Treat Williams I can't be the big star in the family. We have a family, and we are all equal. Martina McBride Always two there are, a master and an apprentice. Frank Oz I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools. Sally Kirkland

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble

when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics. Max Weber One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. George Sand Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all. William Hung There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold. Coleman Young Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. Jonathan Swift Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law. Lamar S. Smith One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. Niccolo Machiavelli

But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I

give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them. Bai Ling When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool. Luke Wilson Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important. David Brinkley Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. Rush Limbaugh When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. Lyndon B. Johnson Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. Nikos Kazantzakis Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative.

Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. Marilyn Hacker It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. Federico Fellini Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. Walter Raleigh Make yourself necessary to somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action. Morris Chestnut The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. Sophie Swetchine A winner never stops trying. Tom Landry

In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you

have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages. Tim Bishop We live in a kissy society. Michael Bergin Time and tide wait for no man. Geoffrey Chaucer When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name. Lori Loughlin I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. Andy Summers Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Alfred A. Montapert The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. Huey Newton

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator

in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud. Lisa Marie Presley Wine is a peep-hole on a man. Alcaeus Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors. Jim Rohn So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. Emile M. Cioran Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. John Jewel You are within God. God is within you. Peace Pilgrim The will of man is his happiness. Friedrich Schiller

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want

in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work. Usher When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done! Dennis Weaver The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. Thomas Fuller Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. Polybius But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! George Canning Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. Ronald Reagan

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent

to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit. Fran Lebowitz I try to manage my time to conserve energy. Karen Duffy Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. Arnold Bennett The Pyrenees are no more. Louis XIV Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes. Cher You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences. Walter Hill I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. Charles Bukowski

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who

murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years. Karen Hughes The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. Leon Trotsky If you're going to America, bring your own food. Fran Lebowitz Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. Thomas Mann Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records. Art Garfunkel I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again. Arthur Freed I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking. Douglas Wilson

If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's

because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist. Angie Harmon When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. Henry Flynt The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. J. William Fulbright I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything. Gil Kane I'm as pure as the driven slush. Tallulah Bankhead I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation. Phyllis Theroux I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. Margaret Forster

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those

soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter. Howard Dean If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it. Paul Martin Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. Malcolm Muggeridge Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly. Harold Stephen Black I come from a football family which has really helped. Frank Lampard The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. Carl Jung I would rather have one minute at this age than a month at 21. William Holden

I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather

work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck. Ron Perlman One man is as good as another until he has written a book. Benjamin Jowett Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red. Cecilia Bartoli The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. Gloria Vanderbilt Records... a record just shouldn't be that important. Bruce Johnston I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her. Woody Allen Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's

an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality. Margaret Spellings That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another. Charles M. Schulz You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. Nicholson Baker I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. Bette Midler News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising. Lord Northcliffe Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score. Horace

Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself

of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life. Carl Andre You know, I never expected to enter the movie business. Christopher Atkins Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. George Santayana A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. John Burroughs Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language. Carol Shields Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he

had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. James Hogg Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible. Deion Sanders We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers. Linda Ronstadt Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car. Eric San Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. Jean Rostand In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all. Krzysztof Kieslowski

That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television

I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something. Karl Urban Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. Raoul Vaneigem I believe I am the highest power, absolutely. GG Allin I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability. Bill Paxton And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world. Samuel Daniel Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different. Herbie Hancock With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education. Sally Kirkland

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We

didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. Jane Goodall Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. Ovid As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence. Zahi Hawass I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do. Keith Emerson The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. Olivia De Havilland Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel. Jon Crosby In books lies the soul of the whole past time. Thomas Carlyle

At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what

is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration. Nick Cave I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time. Gene Barry I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude. Michael Chabon I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. George Farquhar Despair has its own calms. Bram Stoker The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. George Santayana Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. Steven Tyler

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought

it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language. Richard Foreman Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go. Linda Ellerbee I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. Ernest Hemingway Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. Josh Billings The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. Ludwig von Mises People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation. Major Owens People learn to lead because they care about something. Charlotte Bunch

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a

kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world. Hugo Weaving Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. Mathieu Kerekou If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. Oscar Wilde All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied. Vernon Howard Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. Ambrose Bierce When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware. Elizabeth Moon I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close. Henry J. Kaiser

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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a

film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. Danny Boyle I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. Arielle Dombasle I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast. Tommy Hilfiger As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all. Gene Tierney I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. Sam Wyly You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way. Terry McMillan No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. Thomas Malthus Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. Vaclav Havel The best thing about be

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and

hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. Herman Melville There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, 'What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?' Dave Obey The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. Alan Gregg This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started. Nick Cannon I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. Robert Smith How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! William Shakespeare Fear is natur

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect

for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day. Tom Hanks The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. Jose Eduardo dos Santos I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it. Brian Harvey In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to. John Walters It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. Immanuel Kant When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that t

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be

a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened. James McAvoy I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. Mitt Romney I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction. China Mieville I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent. Chloe Grace Moretz Listen to many, speak to a few. William Shakespeare I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks. Katee Sackhoff I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. Tori Spelling I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not. Tommy Shaw As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thi

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine

this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. Mary Landrieu I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. H. L. Mencken A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet. Eric S. Raymond The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do. Howard Dean Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. Paul Twitchell I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. Frit

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a

constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. Will Rogers Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. John W. Gardner Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. Louis Farrakhan The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. Robert Taft Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. Frederick Jackson Turner While a lab Director can ge

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at

the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it. Heidi Klum As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes. Rosario Dawson The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. Joe Andrew I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do. Eddie Van Halen Being alone is very difficult. Yoko Ono Natural gas is great for America in so many ways. Ed Rendell Science does not permit exceptions. Claude Bernard You can't know about marriage until you try it. Greg Evigan History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion. Eva Herzigova There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy. Sam Trammell

Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more

powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy. Nathan Myhrvold If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album. Lil Wayne If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. Tony Gilroy There are lots of moments that are great for an actress. Ruth Wilson I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. Lindsey Graham Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty. Robert Mondavi You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. Gordon Lightfoot Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed togeth

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend,

who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work. Claire Danes I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell. Pat Buckley Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. Samuel Butler I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes. David Oyelowo The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman. LeBron James I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths. Aeschylus I don't wish my career on anyone. John Entwistle I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed. Gordon Ramsay I don't like to stop. I believe you stop when you die. Lil Wayne Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way. Alexei Sayle

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world

of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. Adam Michnik Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver. Mary Douglas The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. Carter G. Woodson Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. David Eddings Believe me, when an actress is told that her v