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To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health

care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. Tom Allen Democracy passes into despotism. Plato I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense. Deidre Hall Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. Bobby Sands The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. Robert Benchley Give me a sword fight any day. Joseph Fiennes Do what you love and the money will follow. Marsha Sinetar

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not

shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Woodrow Wilson Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. William Shakespeare If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed. Ludwig von Mises Jimi Hendrix played loud and free, Sergeant Pepper was real to me. Al Stewart I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. Jim Dine Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. Robert Byrne Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones. Suzy Parker

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free.

We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. Allen Boyd By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal. O. Henry We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. Warren Buffett I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. Laurence J. Peter A wise man turns chance into good fortune. Thomas Fuller

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know

how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need. Audrey Tautou We're the best team in baseball, but not by much. Sparky Anderson As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles. Trip Hawkins True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves. Theodor Adorno The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. Edward Bellamy Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I

was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists. Ernst Zundel From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. Denis Diderot I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors. Kim Young-sam The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world. Phil Bredesen Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle. Elizabeth David Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. Henri Frederic Amiel I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. Emily Watson

You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the

meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. Tony Robbins Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. Helen Rowland I believe that every person is born with talent. Maya Angelou I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. Edith Sitwell We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. Robert Baden-Powell Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. Winston Churchill Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm

writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. Bernard Cornwell Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi. Knute Nelson You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. Greg LeMond Keep true to the dreams of your youth. Friedrich Schiller I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins. Jean-Marie Le Pen We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them. M. Scott Peck A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. Rudolf Otto

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear

physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job. John Cameron I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude. Alexander Pope Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists. Mitchell Baker A game is not won until it is lost. David Pleat Where thou art, that is home. Emily Dickinson This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. Wilkie Collins

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps

him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love. Milton Sapirstein We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented. Walter Savage Landor The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more. Michelle Rodriguez What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? Louisa May Alcott There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. Friedrich Schiller There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket. Abe Lemons If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals. Brian Tracy

Well, when I was younger, in high school, I started out smoking pot. Which escalated

into taking acid on a regular basis, which escalated into selling acid. And then I started, when I went to college, I started doing opiates. John Wozniak The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted. Peter McWilliams It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. Friedrich Schiller I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas. Josh Lucas The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own. Bill Bradley Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. Paul Eldridge There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music. Bonnie Raitt

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical

monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you. Phil McGraw Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. Soren Kierkegaard Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation. James Thurber Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. Frank Lloyd Wright How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems. Daniel Webster A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face. Katherine Heigl

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show

that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to. Bobby Scott I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved. Aidan Quinn An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter My mother taught me to read. Fiona Shaw It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor. Donovan Bailey Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. Francis Bacon

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force

to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. William Wordsworth People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well. Rupert Grint In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper. Wellington Mara No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. Albert Einstein Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. Simon Wiesenthal It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work. George Peppard Recently I heard Sheryl Crow and I loved her, she was terrific. Bobby Sherman

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature.

I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself. John le Carre Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. William Penn You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. Oliver Goldsmith The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. Horace Walpole A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mahatma Gandhi I am but an architectural composer. Alexander Jackson Davis The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. John Madden

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of

her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. Carl Sandburg I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living. Harold Budd Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. Tacitus I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. George Bernard Shaw If you can imagine it, we can make it. John Dykstra If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job. John Berry He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly. Clement Clarke Moore

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and

they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI. Tom Hayden Words, without power, is mere philosophy. Muhammad Iqbal If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country. Andrew Johnson Caricature is rough truth. George Meredith If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful. Helen Hunt Jackson By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life. Michael Bergin I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage. Paul Keating

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest

experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about. John Desmond Bernal I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different. Victoria Pratt Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. William Blake He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. Carlo Goldoni The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. Red Auerbach Being an only child is a disease in itself. G. Stanley Hall The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people,

to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats. Ella R. Bloor Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. Andrew Jackson The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. Robert Benchley You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less. Mike Murdock I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage. Daisy Berkowitz Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. Charles de Gaulle In politics nothing is contemptible. Benjamin Disraeli

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I have not made any suggestions about climate change. This is more about blending or

shifting the conversation about the environment versus the economy. It's just such an old, outdated conversation. Jennifer Granholm Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating. Daniel Craig Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week. Michael Symon I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. James Stockdale It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. Pauline Phillips I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people. Jim Caviezel The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone. Ricky Martin I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality. Jennifer Westfeldt I loved Australia. I was very successful there. Todd B...

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend

of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.' Tom Stoppard I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth. Linus Roache I think 'lunch' is one of the funniest words in the world. Stephen Sondheim Because there's no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people join, bringing their perspective and culture. A lot of other communities get set in their ways. Christopher Poole Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me. Ranbir Kapoor I used to work as a volu...

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a

similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family. John Prescott Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. Cuba Gooding, Jr. Frank Morley, who had worked in London at Faber and Faber, was the new head of Harcourt Brace, and he hired me to start in 1940. The early years at Harcourt were wonderful. Almost my first assignment was Virginia Woolf's novel 'Between the Acts.' Robert Giroux I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also b...

The New Testament is of full authority and open to the understanding of simple men

as to the points most needful to salvation. John Wycliffe It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power. Ryan Reynolds At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego. Susumu Tonegawa Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism. Wale From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest. Jane Goodall You must make some decisions Wall Street dislikes. Nelson Peltz Debt, we've learned, is the match th...

I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's

me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer. James Turrell The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners. Frank Deford I love yoga. There's a lot of stretching involved, which helps with my flexibility and injury prevention. Vinyasa is my favorite as a recovery tool and for me to continue having my legs feel good. Alex Morgan When you get on the back side of your 60s, most people aren't working. Tom Petty God doesn't give you more than you can handle. Leanne Caret For as long as I can remember, I've just loved Chanel. Lily-Rose Depp I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again. Hannah Mills To me, Berlin is as much a conceit as a reality. Why? Because t...

Native Americans' families experience living surrounded, living in increasingly small reservations surrounded by the society

that destroyed their civilization, and are still stigmatized. For decades and decades, for hundreds of years except in Indian schools, they weren't allowed to speak their language. That stigma takes a terrible toll. Joshua Oppenheimer Someone once accused me of slumming. I don't know what that means. I play basketball. And through that, I get to see a world that is not smart-kid world. Nick McDonell My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. Frank Sinatra As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library. Tracy Chapman It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really. Derek Hough Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart. Maajid Nawaz In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more ...

Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol',

but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it. Bo Bice As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests. James S. Coleman Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about. LaToya London When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it. Trent Reznor I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted. Pete Townshend I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody. Anthony Kiedis Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved. Orson Pratt I am so thrilled by the privilege of lif...

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm

in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was. Kurt Cobain My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, 'You can hate the subsidies - I hate the subsidies, too - but you can't hate solar panels.' Thomas Massie Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests. Larenz Tate Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909. David Roberts In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair. Jo Brand I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs. Mark Teixeira Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, an...

When I turned 25, something changed in me. I see children in my future 100%.

Soon. I started thinking I want my kids to look back and say, 'Wasn't Mummy amazing?' I've really started thinking about what I'm leaving for them. Jessie J No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That's all changed. Russell Means Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about. Bindi Irwin Some of my Democratic friends don't like it when I say that, but Ronald Reagan was once a Democrat and still a leader. He brought strong people around him, and he had a vision for where he wanted to take the country. Jim Webb One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions. Travis Bradberry Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapt...

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at

individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football. Tom Ford I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study. William Clay Ford, Sr. The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe. Kailash Satyarthi I worship God. Religion and worship are two different things to me. Religion is by the book. I think too many people rely on the textbook: 'OK, it says to do this and it says to do that, so if I do this, this, and that, then I still can go out and do wrong because I did this, this, and that.' Eve I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business th...