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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere

there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. Warren G. Harding The more opinions you have, the less you see. Wim Wenders Unfortunately I'm not a smoker, so cigars have never been a part of my agenda. Bobby Sherman Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still. William Cartwright I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them. Vladimir Horowitz I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. Alice Walker

People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance

that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do. Jeb Bush In a dream you are never eighty. Anne Sexton Revolutions go not backward. Ralph Waldo Emerson She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. Joan Rivers The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. Izaak Walton I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. Richard Baxter You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call. Drew Curtis

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the

Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves. William Petty To awake from death is to die in peace. Douglas Horton From politics, it was an easy step to silence. Jane Austen There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair. Miguel de Cervantes Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. Graham Greene The most successful war seldom pays for its losses. Thomas Jefferson I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children. Mark Udall

I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning.

There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money. Fred Ward You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. Albert Einstein In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. Nancy Astor Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way. Baltasar Gracian I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. Neil Armstrong We talked about the Internet and Wikipedia and how facts and history are being collectively created online. Joichi Ito Trying to understand women is a tall order period. Ricky Schroder

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put

me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work. Otis Blackwell Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. Carl Sandburg Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. Emily Dickinson The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights. Frank Gaffney Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. Thomas Otway If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous. Keith Emerson Poets wish to profit or to please. Horace

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite,

incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. Herbert Spencer Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. Albert Pike A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. Howard Scott True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. William Ralph Inge This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate. Juice Newton I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. Michael K. Powell

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business

with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. John Edwards If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song. Christopher Cross I can hardly decide what plays I should be in. Fiona Shaw No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. Bernard Levin Be tenacious. Get as much stage time as possible. Ana Gasteyer A beautiful woman should break her mirror early. Baltasar Gracian We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman. Shepard Smith

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a

guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that. Roy Clark All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. George Orwell If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible. Gary Bettman I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. Jeremy London I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge. Gordon Strachan Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims. Jean-Marie Le Pen

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it

out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. Jack Bowman Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. Franklin Pierce Adams I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all. Steve Burton We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals. Bob Menendez Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination. David Allan Coe One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes. John Galsworthy

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the

social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. Penelope Lively The asbestos problem impacts everyone. John Engler Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. Calvin Coolidge There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. Bill Watterson I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. Barry Mann I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. Henny Youngman Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird. Shane West

I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand

the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them. Mila Kunis There is nothing like an odor to stir memories. William McFee The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. Herbert Spencer Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself. Sebastian Bach First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef. Martin Yan My life has been a series of emergencies. Lana Turner The CD is dedicated to our dog Nell, who passed away last year. Julia Barr

It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good,

but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed. Jerry Lawler Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view. Robert M. Hutchins If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming My best move is probably my pull up jump shot. Steve Nash The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. Anita Brookner I'm a proud member of the rabble. Benjamin Netanyahu Telling lies does not work in advertising. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value

in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. Eliza Farnham This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well. Victoria Beckham No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand. Bertolt Brecht Few great men would have got past personnel. Paul Goodman The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. Gavin Newsom Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. Virgil I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell. Carol Kane

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause

from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. Xenophon You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it. James Callaghan One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. Plato Nine men in ten are would be suicides. Benjamin Franklin Ask not what the role can do for you; ask what you can do for the role. Ricardo Montalban Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. Havelock Ellis

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging

because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you. Burton Cummings You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog. Carl Icahn Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. Francis Bacon About two months ago I finished a gospel tour. Cliff Richard There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. George Carlin The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security. Brent Scowcroft No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. John Mason Brown

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big

deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever. Vince Vaughn I've got absolutely no intention of ever going to play at another club. Steven Gerrard Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. Livy So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital. Anthony Caro Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. Albert Camus I don't believe in morality in architecture. Michael Graves Anybody who is a fan of any team is going to recognize themselves in this. Peter Farrelly

People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing

about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that. Matt Lucas Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Oliver Goldsmith Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. Dale Carnegie And part of my vision is to do dynamic videos for kids. Tim LaHaye I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible. Amy Grant Man is not made for defeat. Ernest Hemingway The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky

I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race

and gender and just take a closer look at what's really going on in the world today, and say enough is enough! Lonnie Earl Johnson Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking. Eric Roberts I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled. Jesse Jackson He suffered from a rush of words to the head. Herbert Samuel No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. Thomas Chandler Haliburton Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own. Anita Borg

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to

achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive. Donald Rumsfeld The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. Hugh Blair I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians. Haley Barbour I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT. Sanjay Kumar I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia. Richie Allen Elegance is refusal. Coco Chanel Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. William Shakespeare

What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly

better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later. Trip Hawkins I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized. Davy Crockett One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. Oscar Wilde Ampere was the Newton of Electricity. James C. Maxwell Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. Pythagoras I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them. John White Geary I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. Greg Kinnear

If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something

wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government. George Crook With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. Ralph Waldo Emerson My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in. Mark Webber If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Sun Tzu I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives. Jackie Kennedy If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. Thomas Carlyle I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude. Nick Carter

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven:

see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels. Thomas Traherne Life is a state of consciousness. Emmet Fox When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. George Orwell I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows. Steffi Graf To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma. Marcel Dionne A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator. William Cowper A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to

be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. James Hutton So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win. Imran Khan One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly. Gerhard Schroder My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles Kettering I've spent several years now with my head down. Stephan Jenkins Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls. Ice T As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. Virginia Woolf

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the

kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron. Lizzie Andrew Borden Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. Alfred Marshall God is not a dead equation! Muhammad Iqbal As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. Erich Fromm You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. Azar Nafisi For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. Warren Weaver

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of

animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. Kate Millett If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting. Curtis LeMay There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well. Orhan Pamuk I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out. Diana Krall War is never a solution; it is an aggravation. Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes in football you have to score goals. Thierry Henry That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute. Mother Jones

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To

do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle. Victor Mature You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium. Nick Johnson The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Soren Kierkegaard I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to. Trevor Dunn Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight. Naomi Wolf The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. Theodor Adorno

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just

to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. Karen Allen Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. Woody Allen Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin. Francesca da Rimini We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. Thomas a Kempis Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable. Loretta Young A beginning is the end of something, always. Spider Robinson Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course. Alex Trebek

I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I

step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter. Mark McGwire The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. Laurence J. Peter Chess is intellectual gymnastics. Wilhelm Steinitz God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK. Chubby Checker What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Djuna Barnes You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there. Wayne Shorter I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew. Tim Conway

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who

you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about. Ricky Williams Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Marcus Tullius Cicero When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did. Dave Blood When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. Mark Twain Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. William Shakespeare That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out. Steven Squyres Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians. Paula Danziger

I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for

the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses. Jack Irons The first is called insuperable, the second inseparable, the third singular. Richard Rolle Patience is the art of hoping. Luc de Clapiers The wavering mind is but a base possession. Euripides Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. Karl Marx It was easy to be the bad guy throughout. Dean Cain It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor. Larry Holmes

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether

that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. Dennis Prager The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to. Robert Smith To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. Abraham Lincoln I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble. Lita Ford If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. Robert Green Ingersoll Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. Marion Milner

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really

know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me. Andie MacDowell Never give advice in a crowd. Pope Paul VI Life without Liberty is far worse than death. Hamid Karzai Big doors swing on little hinges. W. Clement Stone It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny. Andrew Lloyd Webber You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Richard Bach The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price. Emile Lahoud

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the

tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. Joseph Lancaster A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. Alexander Cockburn Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. Matthew Henry I think I was supposed to play jazz. Herbie Hancock I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain. Gisele Bundchen I believe in gradual experimentation with running shoes. Bill Rodgers Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. Abraham Lincoln

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these

most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family. Donna Reed People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. Russell Baker When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true. Montserrat Caballe Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. Paul de Man Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time. Tallulah Bankhead Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers. Ellsworth Huntington Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. Kent Conrad

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other

circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones. Ellsworth Huntington You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. Vachel Lindsay Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. Martin Amis I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive. Sanjay Kumar We want peace, but not at any price. Ehud Barak The world has no room for cowards. Robert Louis Stevenson If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. Leo Buscaglia

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually

take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. Thomas Jefferson Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. Walter Benjamin There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music. John Keats Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Robertson Davies Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe. Henry Norris Russell Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. Paul Scofield I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him. Jack Klugman

So to that extent that was a very sharp reminder a few months out from

the election that we weren't performing in the eyes of the public to the level that they wanted if they were going to re-elect us. So we went out and were much more upfront on issues. Jim Bolger You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. Terry Southern The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal. Paul D. Boyer Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. William Wycherley Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. Benjamin Rush We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. Bernard de Mandeville

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if

a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms. Rob Schneider Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it. Robbie Coltrane Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Peter Drucker We signed to play until the day we died, and we did. Jimmy Greaves When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character. Vince Gill No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel. Michael Kennedy I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV. Ana Gasteyer

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth

said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. Marcel Proust We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices. Carl Levin I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average. Jeff Goldblum The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry I wasn't athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. Matt Long There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels. Pearl White Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day. Ted Allen

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems

as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive. William S. Paley In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same. Joan Armatrading In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. Marlene Dietrich I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. Mary Harris Jones Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive. Donald Rumsfeld The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. Napoleon Hill

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they

can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. Orison Swett Marden A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. Aristotle I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime. Ted Lange I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. Pierce Brosnan The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. Charles Kettering We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level. Bruce Johnston Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. Orison Swett Marden

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce,

reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. Rod Blagojevich I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it. Courteney Cox Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. Gates McFadden Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. D. H. Lawrence A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. Georg Cantor Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. Pope John Paul II I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. Hugo Chavez

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take

the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. Lord Melbourne I am not afraid... I was born to do this. Joan of Arc One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy. Man Ray Of my friends I am the only one left. Terence I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album. Robbie Williams Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. Gloria Steinem They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it. Jimmy Hill

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were,

and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. Paracelsus Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. Peter Drucker And my father, after all, was a nationalist. Heinrich Mann The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Pythagoras I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it. Jim Dale Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house. Ramakrishna Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. Andrew Wiles

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden,

everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. James Ellroy I'm working my way toward divinity. Bette Midler They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn. Mary Higgins Clark I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. Jeff Tweedy So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash. Vince McMahon When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. Maria Callas

Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the

time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving. Emeril Lagasse Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. Alexandre Dumas I have never been one to look beyond today. Tucker Carlson My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble. Imelda Marcos Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors. Bryan Procter My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. Allen Ginsberg Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We

put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up. David Duchovny I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt. Benny Hinn I think that words are often extraneous to what I do. Howard Hodgkin The purpose of a business is to create a customer. Peter Drucker The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. John Scott So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars. Jeff Gordon The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. Gilbert K. Chesterton

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it

up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there. Michael Chabon Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. Anne Morrow Lindbergh I like to make pictures about people who make a difference. Jerry Bruckheimer Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? Karl Shapiro Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley I've been on the cover of every magazine in the world. Janice Dickinson Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. Peter Davison

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is

because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. Mary Douglas Never follow the crowd. Bernard Baruch Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. Mark Twain Man is an imagining being. Gaston Bachelard Honesty prospers in every condition of life. Friedrich Schiller Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate. Bill Terry This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me. Sean Combs

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put

our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of. Phil McGraw Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways. Wynonna Judd I have a policy that I get to spend as much on myself as I give away. Jim Clark First feelings are always the most natural. Louis XIV Compassion is the basis of morality. Arthur Schopenhauer Our job is not to set things right but to see them right. Eric Butterworth The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. Douglas Hurd

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can

be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution. Harold H. Greene We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding. Iyad Allawi A job is a very healthy thing to do. David Soul I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses. Nell Carter Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent. Arthur C. Nielsen I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years. Tommy Tune They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger. Craig Kilborn

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins

marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. Ezra Cornell Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day. Janice Dickinson You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference. Jimmy Webb Every time I come off-set, I am just like a normal kid again. Rupert Grint The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. Joshua Chamberlain 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. Pedro Calderon de la Barca We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there. William Bell

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would

be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. Robert Jackson I have always advocated for funding and programs that increase our productivity and competitiveness. George Allen And our dreams are who we are. Barbara Sher If you have to forecast, forecast often. Edgar Fiedler I lost the ball in the moon. Hank Sauer We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences. Jacqueline McKenzie You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps

hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. Vaclav Havel It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing. Ruth Handler It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. Marcus Tullius Cicero The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. H. L. Mencken The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. Paul Watzlawick Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't. Stephen Leacock

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of

things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. Stanley Spencer It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. Torquato Tasso Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made? Algernon Sidney I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character. Jon Stewart Eternity is in love with the productions of time. William Blake It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder. Tim Ryan The Lord called me to plant a church. Bobby Rush

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say

that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city. Todd English Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. Henry Adams Nine tenths of education is encouragement. Anatole France In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA. Mike Johanns Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune. Raymond Queneau If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God. Ramakrishna Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. Josh Billings

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or

deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer. Viggo Mortensen The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. Herbert Spencer Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. Leo Tolstoy Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. Will Rogers She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. Simon Hoggart Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Henry Kissinger If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness. Roma Downey

I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my

character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all. Jennifer Sky The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. Berenice Abbott Take the back roads instead of the highways. Minnie Pearl I've got a little fight in me, but I think that's good. Scott Caan There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. Andrew Wiles A man who limits his interests, limits his life. Vincent Price You want the audience to be uncomfortable. Richard Thompson

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life,

but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context. Chuck Barris Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. H. L. Mencken He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade. Samuel Johnson I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five. Charles Barkley You are either going forward or you are not. Mitchell Reiss Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. Earl Nightingale Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. Al Bernstein

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against

policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves. Richard Burr When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.' Oswald Chambers Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. George Washington Carver Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. Victor Hugo At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. Laura Linney Ability is of little account without opportunity. Lucille Ball Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally. Muddy Waters

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that

it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along. George Martin What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands. Joseph Smith, Jr. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. Pope Paul VI Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Walter Benjamin We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor. Al-Waleed bin Talal To get a hold on boys you must be their friend. Robert Baden-Powell We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America. Chester Bennington

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book

that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. Ernest Hemingway It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone. Aaliyah There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty. Joe E. Lewis I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. Ron Reagan It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80. Patty Berg Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. Stockwell Day If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. Frederick the Great

If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of

our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable. Don Nickles A healthy Amtrak is an integral part of New York and the Nation's economy and transportation systems. Tim Bishop I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor. Ty Cobb Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up. Vicki Lawrence A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. Wayne Gretzky Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move. Cilla Black I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. John Owen

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films

right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important. Mae West The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. Kwame Nkrumah True humility is contentment. Henri Frederic Amiel Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away. Dag Hammarskjold If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. Dirk Benedict Learn what you are and be such. Pindar There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. Ben Kingsley

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts

reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. Fran Lebowitz Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature. Martin Chemnitz Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived. Robert Zemeckis Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else. Thomas Keller A film is a petrified fountain of thought. Jean Cocteau I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. Heinz R. Pagels Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. Alfred Adler

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though,

because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes. Ayumi Hamasaki Diligence is the mother of good luck. Benjamin Franklin Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. John Dryden Conceit is God's gift to little men. Bruce Barton My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands. Just Fontaine It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education. Edmund Barton I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want. Tobey Maguire

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the

study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down. Frank Luntz If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it. Terry Josephson Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. Leon Blum I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. Julian Barbour Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it. Jay London

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and

am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. Ezra Cornell Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you. James D. Houston The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit. Ellen G. White What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States? Charles Bass Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall. Chuck Schumer The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. Thomas Carlyle

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not

that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in. Tina Fey Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. Patrick Henry I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date. Mike Gordon It is only the ignorant who despise education. Publilius Syrus Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. Edgar Rice Burroughs Win any way you can as long as you can get away with it. Leo Durocher I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. Kevin J. Anderson

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it

is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one. Alfred Einstein Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. Angela Carter Man is a messenger who forgot the message. Abraham Joshua Heschel Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. Sarah Louise Delany We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. Ahmed Best All that matters on the chessboard is good moves. Bobby Fischer I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team. Michael Phelps

Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have

been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living. Bill Dixon But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough. Stephen Lewis The Iraqi elections were an important first step. Brent Scowcroft Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. Learned Hand Everybody has problems. Tanya Tucker I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs. Mo Rocca My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. Mark Twain

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape,

and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two. Emma Bull As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. Benjamin Franklin If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. Antonio Porchia I swear I want to be a food model. Amy Sedaris Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you. Morgan Brittany Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it. William J. Brennan, Jr. No doubt it was better to have become president than not. Kim Young-sam

If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the

road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter. Cliff Richard We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada. Billy Sherwood I would like to see America some day. Hanoi Hannah The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. Henry Ward Beecher There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. William Gaddis Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. Tacitus Well, The Dirty Dozen was like a vacation. Clint Walker

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the

Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations. Ernst Zundel I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia. Mary Harris Jones I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to. Thayer David To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity. Friedrich Nietzsche The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. Emile Zola Translation is the art of failure. Umberto Eco Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility. Walter Hill

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make

some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life. Gary Kemp The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. Francis Bacon Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace. Trip Hawkins I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again. Lesley Garrett Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. Robert Hass It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg. Navjot Singh Sidhu To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag. Pauline Hanson

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