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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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There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the

dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk. Maggie Smith We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves. David Milne Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right! Al Lewis If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about. John Bonham We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant. Charley Reese Our universities and museums are respected around the country. Jane Byrne George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. Yo...

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way

I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin. Lucy Davis WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame. Mr. T Credit markets were originally created to serve human needs; to provide businesses and individuals with capital to start or expand businesses or fulfill other financial needs. Muhammad Yunus I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers. Louise Nurding The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it. Sandra Dee I personally do not find puke funny. I find it disgusting. Lucy Punch I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who ...

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a

period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it. Cliff Richard If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. Barbara Kruger When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring. Kathy Valentine I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks. Sean Booth The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. Henry Adams Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker E...

It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's

faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience. Jann Klose I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe. Nicole Ari Parker This is sort of not expected, but I would love to produce a record for Missy Elliott. It would be totally different, but she makes party music. 'Lose Control' was my favorite song when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Ansel Elgort I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point. Chris Van Allsburg Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation. Kristin Armstrong I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote. Ted Cruz Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them i...

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or

a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. Christopher Alexander As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio. Jason Schwartzman I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement. Matt Taibbi I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything. Sammy Hagar Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping. Daniel Goleman I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. Hillary Clinton As a ki...

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one

deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.' Stacy Schiff Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate. Sarah Caldwell I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song. Bruno Mars You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama. Paula Deen Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. George Savile I love being in a courtroom. Kamala Harris Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. Karl Liebknecht Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Vic...

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out

of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. Edmund Hillary I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances. Myron Scholes We don't have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It's just what you do. If you want a big family that's just what you do, isn't it? Ray Winstone Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others. Roscoe Conkling I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. B. B. King In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indiffer...

The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them

fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it. Cindy Gallop The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either. David Ulevitch I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. Mahatma Gandhi For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season. Darren Criss I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position. Dee Dee Myers As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith i...

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I

love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. Angelina Jolie They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time. Micky Dolenz I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president. Howard Dean Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. Denis Waitley An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. Theodor Adorno The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose fles...

You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera,

but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life. Ransom Riggs There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. Ida Rentoul Outhwaite I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole. Wes Anderson There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you. Jeffrey Kluger More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Righ...